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Iran has been swept by nearly a week of protests since the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini.(File)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
“I politely declined. We are in New York, where there is no law or tradition regarding headscarves,” Amanpour, who was born in Britain to an Iranian father, wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n
“I pointed out that no previous Iranian president has required this when I have interviewed them outside Iran,” she said.<\/p>\n
“I said that I couldn’t agree to this unprecedented and unexpected condition.”<\/p>\n
She posted a picture of herself — without a headscarf — sitting in front of an empty chair where Raisi would have been.<\/p>\n
An aide to Raisi, a hardline cleric, told Amanpour that he was insisting on a headscarf because of “the situation in Iran,” she said.<\/p>\n
Iran 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’ rules on how women dress.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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