Iran on Monday banned CNN journalists from working in the country after the broadcaster misquoted President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying Iran wanted nuclear weapons, the ISNA students news agency said.
CNN's simultaneous translation of Ahmadinejad's lengthy news conference on Saturday included the phrase "the use of nuclear weapons is Iran's right."
In fact, what the Iranian president said was that "Iran has the right to nuclear energy," the official IRNA news agency reported. CNN later clarified in an apology on Sunday night.
Iran denies any intention of seeking nuclear weapons, saying it wants atomic technology merely for the generation of electricity.
CNN on Monday acknowledged the mistranslation in a statement released from its headquarters in Atlanta and said it had apologized for the error on CNN International, CNNUSA and all other CNN outlets that had used the mistranslation.
Oops! Nuclear weapons... nuclear energy.....tomato...tom-ah-to..what is the big deal?
Damn these Iranians are sooo touchy! It's like they are trying to hide something or.....ohhh!
But the good news is that Cristina Amanpour is safe again! The bitch has like nine lives or something!
Christine is a Zena, she's tough of the newsland...thank heavens...and thanks heavens she speaks Farsi- she probally picked up the damn error...and CNN probally fought with her...( can't you just picture her and Wolfie going at it....you just know they don't see eye to eye...she is all about the Culture..and impacts on the People- I saw her and Wolf get into it during the Katrina- because she and Nic Robertson said Katrina was worse than any war zone they had covered, she is sitting there in the hellzone and she is describing bodies floating by...and yeah, Wolf decides to argue with her..she is one tough cookie)....
ReplyDeleteCNN is ALL over the Iran issue- they suck at covering anything at home like Illegal spying...or medicare debacle...or don't get me started...
yeah the ranting Lilith by the Lake is back...