Iranian chess grandmaster Mitra Hejazipour: 'The regime can no longer stop this movement'

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Mitra Hejazipour: "Mehsa Amini's death was the beginning of the end of this regime. We know that during these years, many people have been killed and imprisoned by this regime, but this was a turning point for Iran."

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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:03 I have no doubts that this regime will not

00:28 hesitate to oppress the people who they have the courage

00:36 to show their opposition.

00:39 But I know that this change, this maturity that

00:44 happened in the mind of people, we cannot go back.

00:51 I mean, once you tasted the freedom, you cannot go back.

00:56 You cannot forget about the moment

00:58 that you tasted the freedom.

01:00 I had this hope that this change can happen.

01:06 And I think it was the start of an end of this regime.

01:16 During all this time I was playing professionally,

01:20 during our trips and our travels out of the country,

01:24 there was people who were accompanying

01:26 our team named security guards.

01:30 They were accompanying our team everywhere.

01:32 They were monitoring you, what you eat, to whom you talk,

01:37 what you do.

01:38 I remember in a competition, it was World Youth Championships.

01:43 I won a medal.

01:44 And a nine-year-old boy, he wanted

01:47 to shake hands to say congrats.

01:51 But our manager, she was not the security guard,

01:57 but she was accompanying the team.

02:00 She mentioned that we cannot shake hands with men.

02:07 And it was really a shocking moment,

02:10 because you're just a kid, and you cannot shake hands

02:16 with your friend, which is a boy.

02:18 (gentle music)

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