Quote:An 18-year-old chess grandmaster has been banned from Iran’s national team for refusing to wear the hijab, which has been a mandatory for women there since Shiite Islamists seized power in the once-secular nation in 1979.
Dorsa Derakshani

Dorsa Derakshani flouted Iranian law by refusing to wear the traditional Muslim headscarf while competing as an independent player at the recent 2017 Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival. Her brother, 15-year-old Borna Derakshani, was also banned from the chess team for competing against an Israeli player in the same tournament.

Both siblings are now prohibited from competing in future international competitions.

Iran is notoriously anti-Semitic, prohibiting its sports athletes—including chess players like Derakshani—from fraternizing with and competing against Israelis.

The head of Iran’s Chess Federation, Mehrdad Pahlevanzadeh, says that the organization intends to punish the siblings in the “severest way possible,” per a post on My Stealthy Freedom, an online movement of Iranian women who are attempting to regain their freedoms in the Islamic Republic.

“Unfortunately, what shouldn’t have happened has happened,” he said. “Our national interests have priority over everything.”

Iranian women’s rights activist Darya Safai decried the ban on social media with the hashtag #ForcedHijab. “Dorsa to me is the true feminist, not the Swedish government parading with the headscarf with [President of Iran Hassan] Rouhani,” wrote Safai on Facebook. Earlier this week, Swedish finance minister and avowed feminist Magdalena Andersson compared Iran’s compulsory hijab laws to simply wearing a hat.

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I was about to say that her name is Nazí Paikidze, but I learned by clicking the article that this is another girl in addition to her.

Awesome. Gen Z is red-pilled.