By Banafsheh Zand and Sophie Baron-AmirTeymour:

Christiane Amanpour, CNN’s chief international correspondent, has long enjoyed a reputation as one of the highest-caliber journalists in the world. Decorated with awards, granted privileged access to presidents and prime ministers, and treated in elite circles as a moral authority on international affairs, she has cultivated an image of fearless objectivity. To many Iranian observers, however, she carries a very different reputation: that of a journalist who, time and again, appears to make excuses for the Islamic Regime while casting suspicion on those who oppose it.

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