{"id":182842,"date":"2022-09-24T13:04:20","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T10:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/?p=182842"},"modified":"2022-09-25T11:47:45","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T08:47:45","slug":"daawo-iran-president-cancels-cnn-interview-over-headscarf-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/daawo-iran-president-cancels-cnn-interview-over-headscarf-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"DAAWO:-Iran President Cancels CNN Interview Over Headscarf Demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-182837\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/4985.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1240\" height=\"744\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/4985.webp 1240w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/4985-300x180.webp 300w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/4985-1024x614.webp 1024w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/4985-768x461.webp 768w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/4985-696x418.webp 696w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/4985-1068x641.webp 1068w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/4985-700x420.webp 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1240px) 100vw, 1240px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>UNITED NATIONS, United States: 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.<br \/>\nAmanpour, 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.<br \/>\n\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.<br \/>\n\u201cI pointed out that no previous Iranian president has required this when I have interviewed them outside Iran,\u201d she said.<br \/>\n\u201cI said that I couldn\u2019t agree to this unprecedented and unexpected condition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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 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;<\/p>\n<p>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.<br \/>\nA 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.<\/p>\n<p>With agencies.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Iran President Cancels CNN Interview Over Headscarf Demand\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yRLRQ6-4rAE\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNITED NATIONS, United States: 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":182837,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10221280388112155_325455220908133":"","twitter_917774835383787521_917774835383787521":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182842"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182843,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182842\/revisions\/182843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}