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Fars: "CNN, Amanpour Should Account for Fabrication of President Rouhani's Remarks."

Fars: "CNN, Amanpour Should Account for Fabrication of President Rouhani's Remarks."(fars).

TEHRAN (FNA)- The CNN and Christian Amanpour, who interviewed President Rouhani on Tuesday, should account for the fabrication of the Iranian President's remarks about the Holocaust, as they are responsible for what they air, specially considering that Amanpour has been raised in Iran and knows the Persian language very well.

The American news channel CNN fabricated the Iranian President's remarks in response to the network's question about the Holocaust in an interview which was aired on Tuesday and Wednesday.

During the interview, the CNN aired an English translation of President Rouhani's remarks which was totally inacurate and untrustworthy, and in some parts contained sentences which were not at all uttered by the president. (for details click here)

A CNN source was quoted by Business Insider as saying that "the translator was chosen and hired by the Iranians, and we re-voiced/dubbed exactly as she translated and the CNN is planning to post the entire interview, with translator's voice and transcript later", (which it did, but could not remove the burden of the guilt of misinforming the public from the shoulders of the CNN).

It was expected from a professional news channel like the CNN and a professional host like Ms. Christian Amanpour who knows the Persian language very well and even greeted with President Rouhani in Persian at the beginning of the interview to listen carefully to what exactly the Iranian president said about the Holocaust and edit those parts which didn’t correspond to Mr. Rouhani's comments instead of blaming the Iran-chosen translator for the big fault.

According to the Wikipedia, "Born in London, England, Amanpour was raised in Tehran. Her father is a Muslim from Iran; her mother is a Christian from England. After completing the larger part of her elementary education in Iran, she was sent by her parents to boarding school in England when she was 11" which proves that Amanpour knows Persian very well.

Ms. Amanpour has many videos on the internet showing her speaking in Persian very fluently and then even translating those sentences into English for the audience.

She has also had long chats and dicussions with Iranian reporters, including one of FNA's editors, in Persian and she has appreared very fluent in Persian everywhere.

Fars News Agency's political desk editor Assadi, who has talked with Amanpour on a number of occassions, says, "She speaks Farsi (Persian) even better than I do."

FNA found the differences between President Rouhani's comments and its translation after the CNN aired the interview on Tuesday and protested at this untrustworthy and misleading coverage.

CNN officials seem to be escaping their responsibility of informing the public honestly.

Even if we suppose that the CNN had no role in this blunder, the network first had the vital responsibility for checking the veracity of the translation of the remarks of the president of a world country about such a vital issue as the recognition or rejection of the Holocaust, specially when it is the president of the Islamic Republic of Iran speaking about this subject.

Yet, again now that the network knows the untrustworthiness of the translations, it has the responsibility to inform the public of the mistake and air the interview again, but this time with a deserving translation.

Fars: "CNN Fabricates Iranian President's Remarks about Holocaust."

Fars: 'CNN Fabricates Iranian President's Remarks about Holocaust.'(Fars).

American news channel CNN fabricated the remarks made by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in response to the network’s question about the Holocaust.

The CNN aired its interview with Rouhani on Tuesday but the news channel added to or changed parts of his remarks when Christiane Amanpour asked him about the Holocaust.

Here is the exact transcript of the Farsi text according to the CNN broadcast:

من قبلا گفتم که من تاریخ دان نیستم و ابعاد حوادث تاریخی را تاریخ دانان باید تبین کنند، بیان کنند و توضیخ بدهند. اما به طور کلی هرگونه جنایتی که در تاریخ علیه بشریت اتفاق افتاده باشد و از جمله جنایتی که نازی ها انجام دادند چه در مورد یهودیان و چه در مورد غیر یهودیان از نظر ما کاملا محکوم است همانطور که امروز هم اگر جنایتی انجام شود علیه هر ملتی یا هر دینی یا هر قومیتی یا هر اعتقادی، ما آن جنایت و نسل کشی را محکوم می کنیم بنابراین کار نازی ها محکوم است بنابراین ابعادی که شما می گویید به عهده مورخین و محققین است که آن ابعاد را روشن کنند. من محقق تاریخی نیستم.

Here is the exact English translation of President Rouhani’s remarks:

Rouhani’s: “I have said before that I am not a historian and historians should specify, state and explain the aspects of historical events, but generally we fully condemn any kind of crime committed against humanity throughout the history, including the crime committed by the Nazis both against the Jews and non-Jews, the same way that if today any crime is committed against any nation or any religion or any people or any belief, we condemn that crime and genocide. Therefore, what the Nazis did is condemned, but the aspects that you talk about, clarification of these aspects is a duty of the historians and researchers, I am not a history scholar.”

And here is what the CNN translation says:

CNN Question: “One of the things your predecessor (President Ahmadinejad) used to do from this very platform was deny(ing) the holocaust and pretend(ing) it was a myth, I want to know you, your position on the holocaust, do you accept what it was, and what was it?”

CNN’s Translation: “I’ve said before that I am not a historian and then, when it comes to speaking of the dimensions of the Holocaust, it is the historians that should reflect on it. But in general I can tell you that any crime that happens in history against humanity, including the crime that Nazis committed towards the Jews as well as non-Jews is reprehensible and condemnable. Whatever criminality they committed against the Jews, we condemn, the taking of human life is contemptible, it makes no difference whether that life is Jewish life, Christian or Muslim, for us it is the same, but taking the human life is something our religion rejects but this doesn’t mean that on the other hand you can say Nazis committed crime against a group now therefore, they must usurp the land of another group and occupy it. This too is an act that should be condemned. There should be an even-handed discussion”.


After the CNN released the interview, hundreds of news agencies, TV and news channels, websites and weblogs broadcast this title: “Iran’s President Rouhani Calls Holocaust ‘Reprehensible’ Crime Against Jews”, a title quoted from the CNN; Or “Rouhani Recognizes the Holocaust as Crime against Jews”.

Report: CNN Israel fires all its Jewish journalists?

Report: CNN Israel fires all its Jewish journalists?(HT: IsraelMatzav).
Update at 8:30 PST: we just received the names of the four journalists that were fired:

Moshe Cohen, editor, fired on january 30, 10 years with CNN.

Izi Landberg, Producer, about 25 years with CNN, fired on January 30.

Avi Kaner cameraman fired on january 30, 10 years with CNN.

Michal Zippori desk producer, situation still unclear.

The media scandal that you are about to read was revealed to us by a totally reliable source.
It is likely to provoke a wave of shock and indignation within the North American media industry, and it certainly will not calm down the controversy over the pro-palestinian CNN treatment of the conflict.

We learned today that the Israeli branch of CNN, located in Jerusalem, is downsizing to cope with reduced income from less advertising.

What goes beyond good management is that CNN has fired four Israeli Jewish journalists (out of a crew of 8), and has retained only Arab journalists. Where, until now, CNN always sent a Jewish and an Arab journalist to cover information, now there will be only an Arab journalist. The local chief editor of the News Chanel is now Arabic.

This is a conflict where information is central to public opinion, and it weighs a lot on diplomatic decisions. Furthermore, it is no secret that Arab journalists cannot freely publish what they want without risking for their own lives when traveling to Gaza, East Jerusalem, and Judea Samaria. Thus, CNN decision to fire all Jewish journalists from its Jerusalem office is of particular concern, because the general public is unaware that they will be receiving biased information from CNN.

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