On Monday, far-left news network CNN, gave a long interview with Iranian government official Massoumeh Ebtekar who was the spokesperson for the 52 Americans who were held hostage back in 1979.
CNN host Christiane Amanpour gave almost no push back to Ebtekar and let her spew her Iranian propaganda as the she called the United States’ decision to kill Qassem Soleimani a “terrorist” action.
Check out what the Daily Caller reported:
CNN’s Christiane Amanpour did little to push back on Iranian official Massoumeh Ebtekar’s assertions that the U.S. carried out a “terrorist” action by killing Qasem Soleimani, an Iranian general killed in a U.S. airstrike Jan. 2.
Amanpour also failed to acknowledge that Ebtekar was chief spokeswoman for a group of Iranian students who held 52 American diplomats hostage at the U.S. embassy in Iran for 444 days, from 1979 to 1981.
Ebtekar said in an interview in 1979 during the hostage crisis that she would personally be willing to put a gun to one of the hostages’ heads and pull the trigger.
Ebtekar, 59, serves as vice president of Iran for women and family affairs.
“The American president made a serious miscalculation, they made a serious mistake by assassinating, by taking this terrorist action, against Commander Soleimani, and I’m sure that they regret what they have done,” she said in the interview.
“This has created a great new spirit in the Islamic Republic of Iran, and in many countries in the world for all those who support freedom seekers, and for those who support the oppressed,” Ebtekar added. “Because it’s very clear that Iran is being targeted, and Soleimani was singled out because of this quest for righteousness against Da’esh.”
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Amanpour strategically avoided mentioning Ebtekar’s roll in the American hostages.
“You were, and are, a committed revolutionary. You were very prominent in the early days of the Islamic revolution, but you became more of a reformist as well, and you supported the negotiations for the Iran nuclear deal and diplomacy to settle some issues,” the CNN reporter said.
In an interview from 1979 Ebtekar that she would personally shoot and kill the US hostages if the United States tried to save them.
“You said at a press conference the other day … if there was an attack on this embassy, you will destroy the hostages. Could you really do that?” a reporter said to Eptekar in 1979.
“Yes, we mean it,” stated Ebtekar.
“Could you personally lift up a gun and put it to the head of one of these people and kill him?” the reporter from 1979 asked.
“Yes,” Ebtekar responded.