CNN Fails to Disclose Its Iranian Guest Threatened to Kill American Hostages in 1979

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“She herself said she would personally shoot U.S. hostages in the head if American troops came to liberate the hostages.”

. . . "Tyler O’Neil reports at PJ Media:

CNN Gives Friendly Interview to Iranian Woman Who Said She Would Kill U.S. Hostages in 1979

On Tuesday night, CNN aired an interview between its international anchor Christiane Amanpour and Masoumeh Ebtekar, currently Iran’s vice president for women and family affairs. Amanpour did not once mention Ebtekar’s connection to the Iran Hostage Crisis in 1979, however. Ebtekar was one of the pro-Islamic Revolution students who seized the U.S. Embassy. She herself said she would personally shoot U.S. hostages in the head if American troops came to liberate the hostages.

In a brief segment cut from a 15-minute interview, Amanpour asked the Iranian leader whether the strike that killed Quds Force leader Qasem Soleimani had brought Iranians together.

“I’m saying that the American government — the American president — made a serious miscalculation. They made a serious mistake by assassinating, by taking this terrorist action against Commander Soleimani,” Ebtekar said.

"Amanpour shared the segment on Twitter: . . ."

Comedian Argus Hamilton sized up CNN's reputation as a news source pretty quickly:
"Iran’s Major General Qaissim Solieman’s casket was carted through the streets in Teheran to a memorial service Tuesday. The huge crowd broke into a stampede, killing fifty mourners. That evening, CNN was reporting that President Trump killed fifty people during a Muslim funeral service"