Iran Lifts Ban on CNN After Apology
CNN had mistranslated the Iranian president as saying Iran had a right to use nuclear "weapons," rather than nuclear "technology." | storyBBC: Iran has reversed a ban on CNN, a day after the US network was banned for mistranslating a presidential speech.
State TV said the reversal came after CNN apologised, saying the translator’s error had not been deliberate.
CNN wrongly translated President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying Iran had a right to use nuclear “weapons”, rather than nuclear “technology”. | story
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