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[Adoula]

Iran's foreign Minister abruptly left a dinner where he was to sit opposite U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, complaining that a red dress worn by an entertainer was too revealing, a U.S. official said on Friday.

U.S. officials said Mottaki complained to his Egyptian host the red dress worn by a Russian violinist, the entertainer for the evening, was offensive and he could not stay for the beachside dinner at the Sheraton hotel at the Red Sea resort.

[Adoula]

Ukrainian violinist Larissa Abramova performs in the lobby of a hotel in Sharm El-Sheik on Friday

[Adoula]

Larissa Abramova, a Ukrainian violinist, thought her red dress was lovely. But it apparently offended Iran's foreign minister so much he boycotted a gala dinner attended by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

Abramova said Friday she was wearing a red, sleeveless dress with matching gloves coming up past the elbow and a red scarf draped over the low-cut front. She chose the ensemble especially for Thursday's dinner for dozens of the world's top diplomats because she knew she would "look beautiful in it.

Larissa Abramova, a Ukrainian violinist, thought her red dress was lovely. But it apparently offended Iran's foreign minister so much he boycotted a gala dinner attended by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

Abramova said Friday she was wearing a red, sleeveless dress with matching gloves coming up past the elbow and a red scarf draped over the low-cut front. She chose the ensemble especially for Thursday's dinner for dozens of the world's top diplomats because she knew she would "look beautiful in it.

But Mottaki stayed away from the dinner at a restaurant on the hotel's beach. He only went as far as the lobby, where Abramova was playing at the bar, entertaining the dozens of diplomats passing by on their way to the restaurant. He entered the lobby and sat down briefly, never going out to the restaurant, Aboul Gheit said.

Through a translator, Mottaki told reporters there were problems with "Islamic standards" at the gathering. "There was something wrong with that so I offered my apologies," Mottaki said. "There was no other reason."

A U.S. official with Rice's delegation said Mottaki complained to the Egyptians that the hotel violinist was dressed too revealingly. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the dinner was a closed affair.

[RoughShod]

That seemed to be a black dress with a rather lively pair of eyes inhabiting it. It always amazes me how men who have made vows and are married find other women so tempting to themselves when they no longer should be interested in the carnal nature of themselves(having found their 'perfect partners' )

Do they not know by now that whatever carnal partner they find will not satisfy them. Do they not know by now better the devil you know than the one you don't?.Yet it seems within a man's nature forever to seek the devil he does not know