IRAN LOSES FEMALE CHESS CHAMP TO THE US OVER BAD HIJAB RULES Created: 04 October 2017
Iran
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When the Iranian Regime banned a female player from their national chess team for what they call “bad hijab”, the last thing they would have expected is that she would have joined the US team instead.Dorsa Derakhshani refused to wear the traditional headscarf (known as the hijab), which all Iranian women have been forced to wear in public since the Iranian Regime took power in 1979, at a competition in Gibraltar in February

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