United Nations: Veteran journalist Christiane Amanpour stated Thursday that an interview with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi turned into scrapped after he insisted she put on a scarf, the focal point of primary protests withinside the cleric-run state.
Amanpour, the leader global anchor of CNN who additionally has a display on US public broadcaster PBS, stated she turned into geared up for the interview Wednesday at the sidelines of the UN General Assembly whilst an aide insisted she cowl her hair.
“I in a well mannered way declined. We are in New York, wherein there may be no regulation or subculture concerning headscarves,” Amanpour, who turned into born in Britain to an Iranian father, wrote on Twitter.
“I mentioned that no preceding Iranian president has required this once I have interviewed them outdoor Iran,” she stated.
“I stated that I could not comply with this remarkable and surprising condition.”
She published a photograph of herself — with out a scarf — sitting in the front of an empty chair wherein Raisi might were.
An aide to Raisi, a hardline cleric, instructed Amanpour that he turned into insisting on a scarf due to the fact of “the state of affairs in Iran,” she stated.
Iran has been swept with the aid of using almost per week of protests because the demise of 22-year-vintage Mahsa Amini, who died after being arrested with the aid of using morality police that implement the clerics’ regulations on how ladies dress.
A non-governmental institution stated that at the least 31 Iranian civilians were killed withinside the crackdown at the protests, wherein ladies were visible burning headscarves.
