Iran sacks sports official over hijab violation by athlete

[Collection]Iran's sports minister Kioumars Hashemi has sacked the country's deaf sports federation chief after pictures emerged of a foreign woman athlete without a compulsory headscarf at a tournament, local media said. Mehran Tishehgaran was removed from his position "due to events that happened in the Asian Deaf Athletics Championships," the ISNA news agency reported late on Monday. Iranian media has in recent days published images of a woman athlete wearing shorts and a tight tank top at the Sunday-Monday tournament in Tehran.