i24 News – Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi canceled his interview with American TV host Christiane Amanpour while attending the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday due to her refusal to wear a headscarf.
The CNN anchor shared the news on Twitter saying that she planned to ask Raisi about the ongoing protests across Iran over the death of Mahsa Amini who passed away after being arrested by the morality police that oversees women wearing headscarves.
After a 40-minute wait Raisi’s aide arrived and told the journalist the president wants her to wear a headscarf due to it being the holy months of Muharram and Safar.
“I politely declined. We are in New York, where there is no law or tradition regarding headscarves. I pointed out that no previous Iranian president has required this when I have interviewed them outside Iran,” she explained.
“The aide made it clear that the interview would not happen if I did not wear a headscarf. He said it was “a matter of respect,” and referred to “the situation in Iran” – alluding to the protests sweeping the country,” Amanpour wrote.
At least 31 civilians have been killed in an Iranian security forces crackdown on protests, an Oslo-based NGO, Iran Human Rights (IHR), said Thursday. IHR said it had confirmed protests taking place in over 30 cities and other urban centers. Iranian women taking part in the demonstrations cut their hair and burned their headscarves in act of defiance.
But yet he wants to murder innocent men women and children in Israel. He is a hypocrite of the worst kind.
why interview a TERRORIST?
More sheker from the shtufei zimah-niks
She is stupid. Wear it. Have a credit from the interview.
Waste of it.