She described herself as “one of the millions of oppressed women in Iran.”
Alizadeh criticized the mandatory wearing of the hijab headscarf and described constant mistreatment by authorities. “They took me wherever they wanted. I wore whatever they said. Every sentence they ordered me to say, I repeated. Whenever they saw fit, they exploited me,” she wrote. “I wasn’t important to them. None of us mattered to them, we were tools.
The defection comes at a time of high tensions between the United States and Iran and Morgan Ortagus, a spokeswoman for the State Department,, saying she had “rejected the regime’s oppression of women.” Iran “will continue to lose more strong women unless it learns to empower and support them,” she added.
Alizadeh is the latest in a string of athletes to have defected from Iran recently. In September, Saeid Mollaei, an Iranian judoka, left the country for Germany after he said Iranian officials had ordered him to pull out of fights to avoid facing an Israeli. Pourya Jalalipour, an Iranian para-archer who qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, sought asylum in the Netherlands in July. Alireza Faghani, an Iranian international soccer referee, also left for Australia last year.
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