Editing Oriana Fallaci (section)

=== 1970s ===
In the early 1970s, Fallaci had a relationship with the subject of one of her interviews, [[Alexandros Panagoulis]], who had been a solitary figure in the Greek resistance against the [[military dictatorship]] known as the [[Regime of the Colonels]]. Panagoulis had been captured, heavily tortured and imprisoned for his (unsuccessful) [[Greek military junta of 1967–74|assassination attempt]] on dictator and former [[Hellenic Army]] colonel [[Georgios Papadopoulos]]. Panagoulis died in 1976, under controversial circumstances, in a road accident. Fallaci maintained that Panagoulis' "accident" had been arranged by remnants of the [[Greek military junta of 1967–74|Greek military junta]] despite the [[Metapolitefsi|transition to a democracy]], and her book [[A Man|''Un Uomo'' (''A Man'')]] was inspired by his life.{{cn|date=March 2025}}

During her 1972 interview with Henry Kissinger, Kissinger stated that the [[Vietnam War]] was a "useless war" and compared himself to "the cowboy who leads the wagon train by riding ahead alone on his horse".<ref>Fallaci, Oriana. ''Interview with History'', p.40-41. Translated by John Shepley. 1976, Liveright Press. {{ISBN|0-87140-590-3}}</ref> Kissinger later claimed that it was "the single most disastrous conversation I have ever had with any member of the press".<ref>{{cite news|author=Adam Bernstein|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/15/AR2006091501145_pf.html|title=Reporter-Provocateur Oriana Fallaci|newspaper= The Washington Post|date=15 September 2006|access-date=24 April 2013}}</ref> In 1973, she interviewed [[Mohammad Reza Pahlavi]].<ref name=cjer80>{{cite journal|last=Jerome|first=Carole|title=Back to the Veil|journal=New Internationalist|date=1 September 1980|issue=91|url=http://newint.org/features/1980/09/01/women/|access-date=3 August 2013}}</ref> She later stated, "He considers women simply as graceful ornaments, incapable of thinking like a man, and then strives to give them complete equality of rights and duties".<ref name=cjer80 /> After interviewing [[Sheikh Mujibur Rahman]], she described him as "One of the most stupid men I've ever met in my life, maybe the most stupid".<ref>[https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/the-rolling-stone-interview-oriana-fallaci-19760617 ''Oriana Fallaci: The Rolling Stone Interview''], ''Rollingstone.com'' (June 17 1976).</ref>
[[File:Oriana Fallaci in Tehran 1979.jpg|thumb|Fallaci in [[Tehran]] (1979). To interview the Ayatollah [[Ruhollah Khomeini|Khomeini]], she was required to wear a [[chador]]. During the interview, she removed it and attacked the obligation of women to wear it.]]

During her 1979 interview with [[Ruhollah Khomeini|Ayatollah Khomeini]], she addressed him as a "tyrant", and managed to unveil herself from the [[chador]]:

{{quote|'''OF:''' I still have to ask you a lot of things. About the "chador", for example, which I was obliged to wear to come and interview you, and which you impose on Iranian women.... I am not only referring to the dress, but to what it represents, I mean the apartheid Iranian women have been forced into after the revolution. They cannot study at the university with men, they cannot work with men, they cannot swim in the sea or in a swimming-pool with men. They have to do everything separately, wearing their "chador". By the way, how can you swim wearing a "chador"?<br />
'''AK:''' None of this concerns you, our customs do not concern you. If you don't like the Islamic dress, you are not obliged to wear it, since it is for young women and respectable ladies.<br />
'''OF:''' Very kind (of you). Since you tell me that, I'm going to immediately rid myself of this stupid medieval rag. There!<ref>OF – La prego, Imam: devo chiederle ancora molte cose. Di questo "chador" a esempio, che mi hanno messo addosso per venire da lei e che lei impone alle donne,[...] non mi riferisco soltanto a un indumento ma a ciò che esso rappresenta: cioè la segregazione in cui le donne sono state rigettate dopo la Rivoluzione. Il fatto stesso che non possano studiare all'università con gli uomini, ad esempio, né lavorare con gli uomini, né fare il bagno in mare o in piscina con gli uomini. Devono tuffarsi a parte con il "chador". A proposito, come si fa a nuotare con il "chador"? AK – Tutto questo non la riguarda. I nostri costumi non vi riguardano. Se la veste islamica non le piace, non è obbligata a portarla. Perché la veste islamica è per le donne giovani e perbene. OF – Molto gentile. E, visto che mi dice così, mi tolgo subito questo stupido cencio da medioevo. Ecco fatto. {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20081017002159/http://www.oriana-fallaci.com/khomeini/intervista.html Oriana Fallaci, intervista a Khomeini, ''Corriere della Sera'', 26 September 1979]}}</ref>}}