An Iranian chess player, who moved to Spain after she competed without a hijab and had an arrest warrant issued against her back home, has no regrets over her bold gesture in support of the protest movement against her country¡¯s clerical leadership.
But 25-year-old Sarasadat Khademalsharieh, better known as Sara Khadem, also told Reuters that the warrant, which made her return to Iran impossible, was ¡°the most horrible thing¡± that happened to her.
She said that after playing in December¡¯s FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships in Almaty, Kazakhstan, without the headscarf, mandatory under Iran¡¯s strict Islamic dress code, she did not expect a reprisal more serious than a travel ban.
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