'Sometimes I cry' - Top Iranian weightlifter mourns for homeland

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2026-03-16

Leimen, Germany (dpa) - Iranian refugee weightlifter Yekta Jamali hopes to win medals for adopted nation Germany at the European championships next month, but will have one eye on her birth country. "Sometimes I'm sad, sometimes I cry," Jamali told dpa about when she thinks about the protester crackdown and war in Iran. "Normally I always smile and I'm always happy." Her family remain in Iran, which has been attacked since the end of February by......

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