The CNN journalist Christiane Amannpour she refused to wear the veil for a meeting a new York with the conservative Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi. And he canceled the face-to-face. The Iranian-born reporter said so herself, while demonstrations have been taking place in the country for days to denounce the death of Mahsa Amini. This is the 22-year-old Kurdish woman who died in the custody of the vice squad for not wearing the Islamic veil properly. “I think Raisi doesn’t want to be seen with a woman without a veil when protests are raging in his country,” Amanpour herself explained on her account Twitter. “And so we left. There was no interview. As the protests in Iran are ongoing and people are being killed, speaking to President Raisi would have been an important moment.” The interview was to take place on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.
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