By Andrew L. Jaffee

Here we have the “sensibilities” of the Iranian government:

Iran’s foreign minister boycotted a dinner of diplomats where he was to be seated directly across from Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, ostensibly because a female violinist entertaining the gathering was dressed too revealingly.

“I don’t know which woman he was afraid of, the woman in the red dress or the secretary of state,” State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said Friday. …