CNN is fighting back against an Iranian news outlet’s claims that it fabricated portions of Christiane Amanpour’s interview with Iranian president Hassan Rouhani by posting the raw video of the interview with an accompanying transcript.
Amanpour spoke with Rouhani during his visit to the United States for the United Nations general assembly in an interview that aired on CNN International on Wednesday. Based on excerpts of the interview posted online, Fars News Agency claimed that CNN had “added to or changed parts of his remarks when Christiane Amanpour asked him about the Holocaust.”
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Fars placed an “exact Farsi transcript” on its page with its own English translation, comparing it what aired on CNN.