When Diplomats Go Wild: High-Five Causes Outrage in Iran, Germany
Claudia Roth, a female leader of Germany’s Green party, gives a friendly high-five to Ali Reza Sheik Attar, Iran’s U.N. ambassador to Germany, at a conference. Hilarity ensues. Scandalous! Outrageous outrage!
One would think that Iran would have its share of pressing social and political issues from the torture of prisoners to the denial of free speech to the development of nuclear weapons. However, Iran is aghast this week because of this video showing its U.N. ambassador, Ali Reza Sheik Attar, actually touching the hand of a woman. Yes, that is Attar giving a high five to Claudia Roth — a video that sent Muslim clerics in Iran scrambling to determine if he could be forgiven for such a public act of immorality. By the way, they are working on nuclear weapons.
Iran finally solved the problem by declaring it was the woman’s fault…
Notably, Germans are no happier with Roth…