In 2010, Chief Middle East correspondent Octavia Nasr was fired after a tweet saying she was “Sad to hear of the passing of Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah… One of Hezbollah’s giants I respect[ed] a lot.” Parisa Khosravi, senior vice president of CNN International, said she spoke with Nasr, and “we have decided that she will be leaving the company.” His reason for her removal was given as “As you know, her tweet over the weekend created a wide reaction. As she has stated in her blog on CNN.com, she fully accepts that she should not have made such a simplistic comment without any context whatsoever. However, at this point, we believe that her credibility in her position as senior editor for Middle Eastern affairs has been compromised going forward.”
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