Handshakes at the UN - Iran photo opportunity

The decision to toss our head of state into the boiling political pot of the Middle East might or might not have been a piece in its campaign to win a 12-month seat on the United Nations Security Council. Look, here’s our man at the UN shaking hands with Iran’s Hassan Rouhani, and there he is enjoying a bilateral chat with Lebanon’s president!

Whatever the purpose of such photo opportunities, and however much they get hearts beating with excitement on and around Merrion Street, it’s likely that they count for little in New York or, for that matter, anywhere else. But that’s politics, and if politics is show business for ugly people, they don’t get much uglier than the people who currently govern Iran and its client state, Lebanon.