Meet the New Boss's Boss, Same as the Old Boss's Boss

Huh:

President Obama will not meet with Iranian President Hassan Rowhani on the sidelines of the United Nations session after Iranian officials nixed the idea, senior Obama administration officials said Tuesday.

Despite Obama announcing in his address to the U.N. General Assembly that he was opening the door to new talks over Iran’s nuclear program, U.S. officials revealed that the Iranian government was apparently uncomfortable with the prospect of Rowhani chatting personally with Obama in New York.

It’s almost as though the Iranian President doesn’t actually run things and it’s really the mullah’s council making all the real decisions behind the scenes and so it doesn’t really matter if the new President is a “moderate” or whatever.

Who’d have thunk it?