Christiane Amanpour: Growing Up in Iran

Amanpour recounts what life was like for women in Iran under the Shah, before the 1979 revolution.

Christiane Amanpour is a world-renowned war correspondent and news anchor. She is currently CNN's Chief International Correspondent and Anchor of Amanpour, a nightly foreign affairs program on CNN International, and the Global Affairs Anchor for ABC News, contributing to multiple programs and anchoring primetime specials. In 1983, she was hired by CNN as an entry-level assistant on the network's international assignment desk in Atlanta. She worked her way up to correspondent in CNN's New York bureau before becoming an international correspondent in 1990. Over the course of her illustrious career spanning three decades, Amanpour has reported from every major world news event and hotspot, including Iraq, Afghanistan, North Korea, the Palestinian territories, Iran, Sudan, Israel, Pakistan, Somalia, Rwanda, the Balkans, Egypt, Libya, throughout Europe and the United States. She has interviewed many of the world's top leaders, including Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Prime Ministers of Israel, and Moammar Gadhafi and Hosni Mubarak during the Arab Spring.