{"id":1653339,"date":"2022-09-22T12:20:03","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T16:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1653339"},"modified":"2022-09-22T12:20:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T16:20:48","slug":"iranian-president-cancels-interview-because-journalist-wont-wear-hijab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iranian-president-cancels-interview-because-journalist-wont-wear-hijab\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian President Cancels Interview Because Journalist Won\u2019t Wear Hijab"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Firanian-president-cancels-interview-because-journalist-wont-wear-hijab%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1653339&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/\">Media<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">President Ebrahim Raisi&#8217;s regime killed woman for wearing &#8216;improper&#8217; headscarf, sparking mass protests<\/p>\n<p>   @amanpour Twitter   <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/karl-salzmann\/\" title=\"Posts by Karl Salzmann\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Karl Salzmann<\/a> \u2022 September 22, 2022 12:12 pm  <\/p>\n<p>Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi walked away from his first-ever interview on U.S. soil because the interviewer, CNN&#8217;s Christiane Amanpour, said she would not wear an Islamic headscarf.<\/p>\n<p>Amanpour, who also hosts a show for PBS, on Wednesday <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amanpour\/status\/1572928513375670274\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> on Twitter that she was ready to interview Raisi in New York City &#8220;after weeks of planning and eight hours of setting up.&#8221; Forty minutes after Raisi was supposed to show up, a presidential aide told Amanpour that she could not interview Raisi without a headscarf.<\/p>\n<p>She refused, and Raisi pulled out from the interview.<\/p>\n<p>The canceled interview comes as Iran <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/protests-rock-iran-after-morality-police-kill-woman-for-wearing-improper-hijab\/\">faces<\/a> mass protests over headscarves. The country&#8217;s morality police arrested a young woman for wearing an &#8220;improper&#8221; hijab. Police then beat the woman, killing her. In response, demonstrators have taken to the streets, with women burning their hijabs to protest the regime. The country&#8217;s security forces have opened fire on protesters in the Kurdish region, killing three, and blasted water cannons on protesters in Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>Amanpour&#8217;s decision not to wear a headscarf comes days after American 60 Minutes reporter Lesley Stahl decided to wear one to interview Raisi, prompting criticism in light of the protests.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If I could just guess,&#8221; Amanpour <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/world\/2022\/09\/22\/christiane-amanpour-iranian-president-interview-head-scarf-newday-vpx.cnn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> another CNN program, Raisi &#8220;did not want to be seen with a female without a headscarf&#8221; as the protests rock the hardline regime.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People would say, \u2018How come he&#8217;s sitting down with a foreign journalist who&#8217;s not wearing a headscarf, and yet inside Iran they&#8217;re cracking down on young women who are not wearing their headscarves?'&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi walked away from his first-ever interview on U.S. soil because the interviewer, CNN&#8217;s Christiane Amanpour, said she would not wear an Islamic headscarf.<br \/>\nThe post Iranian President Cancels Interview Because Journalist Won\u2019t Wear Hijab appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1653339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1653339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1653339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1653339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1653339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}