Political anger with Iran over the death of Masha Amini has raised its ugly head once more in the public sphere. This time it was when CNN's Christiane Amanpour refused to wear a hijab for an interview with Iranian Leader Ebrahim Raisi.
This meeting, which was scheduled to take place in New York this Wednesday, September the 21st at the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, was canceled after she declined Raisi's request to wear a hijab.
The demand combined with her categorical refusal to wear a hijab for Raisi has become a point of political contention for both parties, due to recent mass protests in Iran over the death of Masha Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman from the northwestern city of Saqez.
Amini perished on September 16th after her arrest by the Iranian Morality Police who accused her of violating the laws requiring women to cover their hair with a hijab and their bodies with loose clothing.
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