Iranian sports climber Elnaz Rekabi received as a heroine after not wearing a headscarf

Elnaz Rekabi, the Iranian sports climber who competed in the Asian Championships without a headscarf, was received by a large crowd on arrival in Tehran. Footage on social media shows that she arrives at the airport in the middle of the night and that people are waiting for her, applauding and cheering. There, Rekabi got into a van, of which it is unclear where it was going.

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