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"Being a Woman in Iran Is a Sin": Mitra Hejazipour, Chess Champion, Tells His Fight Against the Mullah Regime

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In 2019, at the World Chess Championship in Moscow, Iranian Mitra Hejazipour, 25, kidnapped her hijab in front of cameras around the world to mark her resistance to the laws of the Islamic Republic... Today, she tells herself in "The Chess Player" (*).

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In 2019, at the World Chess Championship in Moscow, Iranian Mitra Hejazipour, 25, kidnapped her hijab in front of cameras around the world to mark her resistance to the laws of the Islamic Republic... Today, she tells herself in "The Chess Player" (*).

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In 2019, at the World Chess Championship in Moscow, Iranian Mitra Hejazipour, 25, had the unheard of courage to remove his hijab in front of cameras around the world, to mark his resistance to the laws of the...

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ladepeche.fr broke the news in on Saturday, March 7, 2026.
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