ARTICLE: Diplomatic Hand Extended: Furor May Erupt if Shaken, By ROBERT F. WORTH, New York Times, January 21, 2010

Worth remembering when we contemplate the titanic global power that is Iran: Tehran's government freaks over the idea that one of their ministers might have actually shaken the hand of an official Israeli counterpart.

Oh yeah, that's big-time all right.

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