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#Russia #Moscow #Spain #Madrid
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The #Iran forbidds his #chess player to travel to the championship in #Moscow. This latest spell by the #Iranian Ministry of #Sports is in response to an incident in mid-December during a tournament in #Spain.
Grandmasters Parham #Maghsoodloo and Amin #Tabatabaei had #played against an #Israeli #FIDE champion in a blitz tournament. Competition with #Israelis has been banned from #Iranian athletes for 36 years.
Now the best chess player of #Iran Alireza #Firouzja rejects this ban of the #Mullahs and wants to play in #Moskau under #FIDE flag. #IranProtests
In Madrid there was a talk of a possible #Iranian sport spring,and there was an end to the ban after it was revealed that Maghsoodloo and Tabatabaei had faced FM Ido Gorshtein from #Israel during the blitz tournament.

(picture Parham Maghsoodloo vs Ido Gorshtein, left Tabatabei)
FIDE Vice President @nigelshortchess spontaneously congratulated the two #Iranians for their courage. The #British later speculated that without consultation with the local authorities, the two #Iranians would hardly have dared to take such a step.
Instead of the two "#culprits", #Iran is now #punishing its entire team of top players by prohibiting them from participating in the Rapid and Blitz World Cup. The top Iranian players can take part in the women's competition in #Moscow. No Israelis are registered there.
Meanwhile, it is becoming apparent that the prospective world-class player Alireza Firouzja opposes the #ban from home by playing under the #FIDE flag in #Moscow. #IranProtests
This may be a first step towards a change of #federation. Alireza Firouzja lives in #Paris. Rumors have been going around for some time that the #French #chess federation is trying to get the super talent to change the #federation.
The more stones #Iran puts in his way, the more likely he is to give in to the wooing of others.

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