Why there are so many Iranians in the Refugee Olympic Team ...Kuwait

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In every Olympic Games since 2016, a team of athletes who fled their home countries competes as part of the Refugee Olympic Team. This year, of the 37 athletes joining the games under the Olympic flag, nearly half - 14 - fled from just one country: Iran. Among them is refugee Hadi Tiranvalipour, the champion martial artist who left Iran in 2022. Tiranvalipour was a member of Iran’s national taekwondo team for eight years before he fled the Islamic Republic. Then there’s up-and-coming Iranian weightlifter Yekta Jamali Galeh, who was celebrated by Iranian media after she won the country its first-ever medal in women’s weightlifting in the 2021 junior championship. She

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