Iran’s sports activities minister has sacked the nation’s deaf sports activities federation chief after photos emerged of a overseas lady athlete with no obligatory headband at a match, native media mentioned.

Mehran Tishehgaran was faraway from his place “due to events that happened in the Asian Deaf Athletics Championships,” the ISNA information company reported late Monday.

Sports Minister Kioumars Hashemi named Alireza Khosravi to exchange Tishehgaran, it mentioned.

Iranian media has in latest days revealed photographs of a girl athlete sporting shorts and a good tank prime on the Sunday-Monday match in Tehran.

Tishehgaran mentioned women and men didn’t combine throughout the competitors.

“Only women were present in that area and the security officials collected all the cameras and mobile phones,” he mentioned in an interview with the Fars information company.

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Tishehgaran added that photographs of the athlete have been taken by her group from Kazakhstan.

Covering the neck and head has been obligatory for all ladies in Iran — even foreigners — since shortly after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

In May, the pinnacle of Iran’s athletics federation resigned following a sporting occasion that included ladies with out the obligatory hijab within the southern metropolis of Shiraz.

Women have been more and more flouting the strict gown code since months-long demonstrations erupted in September final 12 months following the demise of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd, in custody.

Amini had been arrested for allegedly breaching the gown code.