Mitra Hejazipour

Mitra Hejazipour (, born 19 February 1993) is an Iranian and French chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster.

Career She won the silver medal in the World Under-10 Girls Championship in 2003.

Hejazipour won the Iranian Women Chess Championship in 2012. She was the runner-up in 2013 and in 2014.

She competed in the Women's World Chess Championship 2015, in which she was knocked out by Pia Cramling in the first round.

Hejazipour won the 2015 Asian Continental Women's Championship in Al Ain. Thanks to this achievement, she earned the title of Woman Grandmaster and qualified for the next knockout Women's World Championship.

She has been playing for the Iranian team at the Women's Chess Olympiads since 2008. Mitra Hejazipour was fired from the Iranian national team in 2020 for "removing her headscarf (hijab) during the World Rapid & Blitz Chess Championship in Moscow". Hejazipour said that the hijab is a "limitation, not protection, as official regime propaganda claims."

In 2021, she began representing France where she had already been living. In March 2023, she became a French citizen.

In 2023, she became the French National women's champion.

Personal life On 14 January 2026, Hejazipour publicly supported the 2025–2026 Iranian protests, stating about the killing of 12,000 protestors: "These are the weapons that Khamenei's terrorists are using against the defenseless people of Iran."

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