Iranian chess player who participated in a tournament without a headscarf now lives in Spain: “An arrest warrant is ready in Iran”

Iranian athletes are also required to wear a headscarf, even abroad. The fact that top chess player Sara Khadem (25) did not wear her headscarf during a world championship in Kazakhstan caused a lot of reactions in December. “When I watched the sacrifices made by girls and women on the streets of Iran, some even risking their lives, it was the least I could do,” she said in an interview with the British broadcaster BBC.