Interview with Iran prez cancelled for refusing to wear headscarf: CNN’s Christiane Amanpour

Veteran CNN journalist Christiane Amanpour on Thursday alleged that a meeting with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, in New York, was cancelled after she refused to wear a headscarf to the interview.
This comes at a time when protests are spreading in Iran against the obligatory hijab in public places, following the death of the 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, after suffering a heart attack, while she was detained by morality police for “not wearing the hijab properly”.
The British-Iranian journalist in a series of tweets said that she was scheduled for an interview with Raisi on Wednesday evening, in New York, where the Iranian president was to participate in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).
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However, more than 40 minutes after the interview, not Raisi, but one of his assistants, suggested that Amanpour wear the hijab during the interview, “out of respect for the months of Muharram and Safar”.
“I politely declined,” Amanpour wrote.