{"id":8413,"date":"2022-09-22T23:36:56","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T17:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/?p=8413"},"modified":"2022-09-22T23:36:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T17:36:56","slug":"amanpour-says-iran-president-interview-scrapped-over-headscarf-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/world\/2022\/09\/22\/news\/8413\/","title":{"rendered":"Amanpour says Iran president interview scrapped over headscarf demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UNITED NATIONS, United States, Broadcasting News Corporation : Veteran journalist Christiane Amanpour said Thursday that an interview with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was scrapped after he insisted she wear a headscarf, the focus of major protests in the cleric-run state. Amanpour, the chief international anchor of CNN who also has a show on US public broadcaster PBS, said she was ready for the interview Wednesday on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly when an aide insisted she cover her hair. \u201cI politely declined. We are in New York, where there is no law or tradition regarding headscarves,\u201d Amanpour, who was born in Britain to an Iranian father, wrote on Twitter. \u201cI pointed out that no previous Iranian president has required this when I have interviewed them outside Iran,\u201d she said. \u201cI said that I couldn\u2019t agree to this unprecedented and unexpected condition.\u201d She posted a picture of herself \u2014 without a headscarf \u2014 sitting in front of an empty chair where Raisi would have been explaining that &#8220;the<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8414\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8414\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8414\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/aman-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8414\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This combination of pictures created on Thursday shows Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Christiane Amanpour. Veteran journalist Christiane Amanpour said an interview with Raisi was scrapped after he insisted she wear a headscarf. (AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>interview didn\u2019t happen. As protests continue in Iran and people are being killed, it would have been an important moment to speak with President Raisi.&#8221; An aide to Raisi, a hard-line cleric, told Amanpour that he was insisting on a headscarf because of \u201cthe situation in Iran,\u201d she said.<br \/>\nIran has been swept by nearly a week of protests since the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died after being arrested by morality police that enforce the clerics\u2019 rules on how women dress. A non-governmental group said that at least 31 Iranian civilians have been killed in the crackdown on the protests, in which women have been seen burning headscarves. With agencies. NEWS COLLECTED FROM ARAB NEWS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNITED NATIONS, United States, Broadcasting News Corporation : Veteran journalist Christiane Amanpour said Thursday that an interview with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was scrapped after he insisted she wear a headscarf, the focus of major protests in the cleric-run state. Amanpour, the chief international anchor of CNN who also has a show on US public &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8415,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8413\/revisions\/8415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}