“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,' Christiane Amanpour tweeted.
demanded at the last minute that she wear a head scarf as a “matter of respect” during an interview planned for Wednesday evening, prompting her to “politely decline” his “unprecedented and unexpected condition.”With anti-government protests raging in the streets of Iran following the death of a young woman in police custody, Amanpour hoped to press Raisi about the news in his first-ever interview on American soil.
, demonstrations have erupted in the wake of Mahsa Amini’s death in custody following her arrest last weekend by Tehran’s so-called “morality police.” She was detained on allegations she violated Iranian law requiring women to wear head scarves in public. Iranian officials have claimed the 22-year-old woman died from a “heart attack.
The veteran journalist said the interview had been planned for weeks and they had spent hours setting up the lights and cameras only for there to be “no sign” of Raisi.
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