A budding insurgency outside Iran

Amanpour

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🗓️ 18 October 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Concern is growing about Elnaz Rekabi, the 33-year-old Iranian athlete who competed in South Korea on Sunday without a mandatory hijab. On social media today, Rekabi said there was a problem climbing with the covering, apologized, and said she was returning to Iran. Now rights groups based abroad are raising the alarm about what might happen to her once she’s home. It comes amid ongoing protests by Iranian women and male allies, sparked by the death of police custody of Mahsa Amini. Amini was an Iranian Kurd, and that community has borne the brunt of the regime’s crackdown. Now some are fleeing across the border to Iraqi Kurdistan and joining armed opposition groups. Correspondent Nima Elbagir traveled there to learn more about this budding insurgency. Also on today's show: British MP Crispin Blunt, the first Conservative Member of Parliament to call for new Prime Minister Liz Truss' ouster; author Anand Giridharadas; Gina Kim, executive producer of Rising Against Asian Hate: One Day in March. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up.
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0:22.0	I'm sorry for those mistakes but I fixed the mistakes.
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0:31.7	Crispin Blunt tells me why he became the first Tory MP calling for Liz Truss to resign.
0:37.6	Then fighting for hearts, minds and democracy,
0:41.8	journalist Anand Geodad spotlights the Persuaders,
0:45.6	moving the dial in a polarized world.
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0:59.0	Now he and filmmaker Gina Kim tell Harry Streinovasen about the new PBS documentary
1:04.8	Rising Against Asian Hate. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London. Where is
1:28.4	El Nars recabi? Concern is mounting tonight over the 33-year-old Iranian athlete who competed in South Korea on
1:36.6	Sunday without a mandatory hijab.
1:39.7	On social media today, Recabi said there had been a problem when called to unexpectedly
1:44.5	climb with the covering. She apologized and said that she was returning to
1:48.8	Iran. Now rights groups based abroad are raising the alarm about what might happen to her
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