And what was Iran's foreign minister doing while his country and the P5+1 were back in Geneva for more patty-cake?

Laying a wreath on the grave of notorious Hezbollah military commander and terrorist Imad Mughniyeh.

Mughniyeh, the leader of Iran’s global terror network, in fact began his career as the mastermind of the deadly 1983 attacks on the U.S. embassy and Marine barracks in Beirut, killing more Americans than any terrorist except Osama Bin Laden. He subsequently engineered the hijacking of TWA Flight 847, as well as the kidnapping, torture and murder of Americans in Lebanon throughout the 1980s, including the CIA’s Beirut station chief William Buckley, who was eventually slaughtered after 15 months of beinghorrifically tortured on film by Mughniyeh and Iran’s terrorist army, Hezbollah.

Orde Kittrie – a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and a tenured professor of law at Arizona State – quickly noted that, as a sign of where Iran stands on the eve of medium-term negotiations with Washington over the Islamic republic’s illicit nuclear program, Zarif’s move to honor the terrorist “signals insincerity.”

The controversy over Zarif’s gesture is likely to criss-cross multiple levels of the political and policy debate.

Most straightforwardly, it threatens to heighten criticism that the Obama administration is walking on eggshells to avoid offending Iran, while the Iranians are indulging in anti-American extremism at the highest levels.

The only reason to take our overlords seriously is that they are going to get us all blown up.