Iranian Chess Official Fears Going Home Over Hijab Photo https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/15/world/middleeast/Shohreh-Bayat-hijab-chess.html

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Shohreh Bayat said she was afraid of returning to Iran after an image of her at a chess tournament abroad seemed to show her not wearing a hijab.

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