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Showing Original Post only (View all)Iran's President abandons CNN interview after Amanpour declines head scarf demand [View all]
Source: CNN
(CNN)Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi withdrew from a long-planned interview with CNN's chief international anchor Christiane Amanpour at the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Wednesday, after she declined a last-minute demand to wear a head scarf.
Some 40 minutes after the interview was scheduled due to start and with Raisi running late, an aide told Amanpour the president had suggested that she wear a head scarf. Amanpour said that she "politely declined."
Amanpour, who grew up in the Iranian capital Tehran and is a fluent Farsi speaker, said that she wears a head scarf while reporting in Iran to comply with the local laws and customs, "otherwise you couldn't operate as a journalist." But she said that she would not cover her head to conduct an interview with an Iranian official outside a country where it is not required.
"Here in New York, or anywhere else outside of Iran, I have never been asked by any Iranian president -- and I have interviewed every single one of them since 1995 -- either inside or outside of Iran, never been asked to wear a head scarf," she said on CNN's "New Day" program Thursday.
Some 40 minutes after the interview was scheduled due to start and with Raisi running late, an aide told Amanpour the president had suggested that she wear a head scarf. Amanpour said that she "politely declined."
Amanpour, who grew up in the Iranian capital Tehran and is a fluent Farsi speaker, said that she wears a head scarf while reporting in Iran to comply with the local laws and customs, "otherwise you couldn't operate as a journalist." But she said that she would not cover her head to conduct an interview with an Iranian official outside a country where it is not required.
"Here in New York, or anywhere else outside of Iran, I have never been asked by any Iranian president -- and I have interviewed every single one of them since 1995 -- either inside or outside of Iran, never been asked to wear a head scarf," she said on CNN's "New Day" program Thursday.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/22/middleeast/iran-president-ebrahim-raisi-christiane-amanpour-intl/index.html
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brooklynite
Sep 2022
OP
I bet he did not want to be interviewed. After the young Iranian girl died in custody
mitch96
Sep 2022
#13
She is an excellent journalist. Fox Nudes could take a lesson from her. But they won't.
ificandream
Sep 2022
#2
yup, Christiane Amanpour is by far the best international journalist out there. Amazing strength &
onetexan
Sep 2022
#6
They stop when they start getting corrected on what's really in the Quran and what is not.
Warpy
Sep 2022
#15
oh please, women don't put on a niqab to stop catcalling . Do you think women in non Islamic
JI7
Sep 2022
#22
If it's truly voluntary they should fight laws that require it . But the fact is that it's not
JI7
Sep 2022
#21
Many women cover their heads when they visit with Muslim people. Just a matter of respect
question everything
Sep 2022
#8