So it was not an isolated action that “happened” to the ORF news editors: Once again a ZiB1 employee wearing a headscarf appeared in the news programme – just when thousands of courageous Iranian women are demonstrating against the forced wearing of headscarves. are protesting.
“The women in Iran are fighting for their freedom and are taking off their headscarves. The ORF Tehran correspondent on ZiB1 wears a headscarf …” is how the well-known journalist Isabella Klausnitzer criticises the repeated appearance wearing a headscarf in one of Austria’s most important news programmes.
It is indeed disconcerting that the news editor-in-chief of the public service broadcaster once again allows ORF employee Katharina Wagner to be seen wearing a headscarf in this live broadcast from Tehran: The editor thus documents the submission of the Austrian TV broadcaster to the bizarre and misogynistic rules of the Iranian mullahs – rules that are currently being fought against by thousands of brave women on the streets of the major Iranian cities.
While it could be assumed that the first time the ORF employee wore a headscarf it might have surprised the ORF editors-in-chief, this can no longer be argued for the second time: The ingratiation to the Iranian regime by wearing a headscarf is an affront to the protesting Iranian women who are currently risking their lives on the streets for their uprising.
Harald Vilimsky, the Austrian FPÖ MEP, already commented on Twitter: “Van der Bellen likes it,” he wrote, alluding to the Green federal president’s saying that women should wear headscarves.
Van der Bellen famously caused irritation with this saying: “We will have to ask all women to wear a headscarf – out of solidarity.” In view of the massive protests by courageous women in Iran, this sentence is not really appropriate.
There has not yet been an official statement from the ORF management or the ZiB1 editors-in-chief on the irritating headscarf appearances.
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