Iran has been swept by practically every week of protests because the loss of life of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini.(File)
United Nations:
Veteran journalist Christiane Amanpour mentioned Thursday that an interview with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was scrapped after he insisted she put on a headband, the main focus of main protests within the cleric-run state.
Amanpour, the chief worldwide anchor of CNN who additionally has a present on US public broadcaster PBS, mentioned she was prepared for the interview Wednesday on the sidelines of the UN Common Meeting when an aide insisted she cowl her hair.
“I politely declined. We’re in New York, the place there is no such thing as a legislation or custom concerning headscarves,” Amanpour, who was born in Britain to an Iranian father, wrote on Twitter.
“I identified that no earlier Iranian president has required this when I’ve interviewed them outdoors Iran,” she mentioned.
“I mentioned that I could not conform to this unprecedented and sudden situation.”
She posted an image of herself — with no scarf — sitting in entrance of an empty chair the place Raisi would have been.
An aide to Raisi, a hardline cleric, instructed Amanpour that he was insisting on a headband due to “the state of affairs in Iran,” she mentioned.
Iran has been swept by practically every week of protests because the loss of life of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died after being arrested by morality police that implement the clerics’ guidelines on how girls costume.
A non-governmental group mentioned that at the least 31 Iranian civilians have been killed within the crackdown on the protests, by which girls have been seen burning headscarves.
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