CNN anchor refuses to wear headscarf per last minute insistence of iranian president on US soil

[butters]

she's complied when abroad, with other countries' dictates in order to be able to do her job, but this interview was to be held in NY. She decided not to interview him after it had been planned for months; his demand was due to 'a matter of respect'. Although it was 'an important interview', i absolutely agree she shouldn't have worn the headscarf at his demand... he was not in his own country and cannot make such demands of American citizens.

looks like he didn't want to be seen with a bare-headed woman when troubles at home are so inflamed over a woman's arrest, deaths and protests.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...sedgntp&cvid=18b3f21cc5064dce9c921aee9dd2a2c2

 

[Biggs_Darklighter]

Bitches need to do what they're told.

 

[oggbashan]

Good for her. She stood with Iranian women being persecuted for daring to burn their headscarves and the woman killed while in police custody for not wearing her headscarf 'properly'. The Iranian government says that a healthy 22-year-old woman died of a 'heart attack' while in Police custody but witnesses say she was tortured to death.

 

[phrodeau]

Next on CNN.

 

[butters]

Iranian women increasingly protesting their rights, burning their hijabs, cutting their hair, all at great danger to their own lives as they clash with the authorities as something like 15 have died for the rights of half a population. My heart and thoughts are with them.

 

[oggbashan]

The Iranian President should have remembered the saying:

When in Rome, do as the Romans do.

His refusal to accept a newswoman not wearing a scarf in the US shows how intolerant and oppressive his regime is. The official Iranian government statement is that wearing a hijab is a matter of personal choice, and then beat up or kill women who don't comply.

 

[KeithD]

In the real world: This wasn't a good time for the Iranian leader to be seen being interviewed by a woman without a headscarf and it wasn't a good time to be interviewed by a high-profile female international journalist about this issue at all. Where the Iranians mucked it up was in not finding a more plausible/less volatile excuse for calling the interview off. The noninterview became as much a news item as the content of an interview and the photo op would have been.

 

[butters]

In the real world: This wasn't a good time for the Iranian leader to be seen being interviewed by a woman without a headscarf and it wasn't a good time to be interviewed by a high-profile female international journalist about this issue at all. Where the Iranians mucked it up was in not finding a more plausible/less volatile excuse for calling the interview off. The noninterview became as much a news item as the content of an interview and the photo op would have been.

indeed

 

[coati]

The Iranian president should be required to wear nothing at all, except for a wooden bucket over his head, when being interviewed by females in NYC.

It is our custom. Respect our customs.

 

[ishtat]

The Iranians have played games like this before. When Madelaine Albright was SOS they substituted at the last minute (without telling her) a minor functionary for their Foreign Minister and reported it in their own media as 'appropriate for a meeting with a woman.'