Speculation ran high at the United Nations this week about whether or not President Obama and Iranian president Rouhani would shake hands. Ultimately, the two leaders did not as the gesture was deemed “too complicated” for Iran at this time, “given their own dynamic back home.”

However, those complications did not prevent a handshake between Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian foreign minister Zarif at a ministerial meeting on Thursday.  The following exchange took place at a press briefing between a reporter and an unnamed senior State Department official: