Top chess player reportedly won't play for Iran due to ban on Israeli players.
DUBAI — Iran's top rated chess champion has decided not to play for his country, Iranian news agencies reported on Tuesday, in an apparent reaction to Tehran's informal ban on competing against Israeli players.
Alireza Firouzja, the world's second-highest rated junior player, would be the second Iranian sports figure in recent months to try to renounce his citizenship over pressures on Iranian athletes to forego matches with Israeli competitors.was banned indefinitely from international judo by the sport's world body until it could guarantee that its athletes would be allowed to face Israelis.
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