TEHRAN (JNS) — Alireza Firouzja, Iran’s top-ranked chess player, has decided to change his nationality in order to get around Tehran’s ban on competing against Israelis, according to Iranian media reports quoted by Reuters on Tuesday. Firouzja is the world’s second-highest rated junior player. In November, Germany granted refugee status to Iranian judoka Saeid Mollaei, […]
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