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An aide to Raisi approached Amanpour, 40 minutes before the start of the interview, asking him to wear a veil, “because these are the holy months of Muharram and Safar”.
“We are in New York, where there is no law or tradition about head scarves. No other Iranian president has demanded this when I conducted interviews outside of Iran,” Amanpour said.
The UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador stated that the advisor “made it clear that the interview would not take place if she did not wear a headscarf”.
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