Iranian Girls U-20 Chess Championship

While the world was focused on the drama of a "democratic" (ahem) presidential election in Iran, chess femmes who live there were busy playing some serious chess. Now we know the election was rigged because Mr. "Imabadman" won with about 2/3rds of the vote, in a country where more than a third of the voters are under the age of 20. Hmmm. Did they get lost on their way to the polls after their text-messenging was cut off? Well, I don't care a whit about Iranian politics. I do care about their chess femmes. This event was held on May 26, 2009. It appears to have been 3 rounds, but only 2 rounds have been reported at chess-results.com. What I find particularly encouraging for the future of women's chess in Iran, is that 20 of the 37 young women who played in this event entered with no FIDE rating! Rank after Round 2 Rk. Name FED Rtg Club/City Pts. 1 Saeidpour Mona IRI 1829 Tehran 2,0 2 Vakilpour Azin IRI 1819 Gilan 2,0 3 WFM Hejazipour Mitra IRI 2097 Kh. Razavi 2,0 　 Alavi Homa IRI 1916 Tehran 2,0 Rahimi Tara IRI 1862 Golestan 2,0 6 Vardkar Mariam IRI 1811 Kh. Razavi 2,0 7 Asgarizadeh Minoo IRI 1947 Tehran 2,0 8 Azadvari Zahra IRI 1833 Tehran 1,5 9 Bagheri Taleghani Nadia IRI 1783 Tehran 1,5 10 Khalaji Hanieh IRI 1914 Tehran 1,5 11 Derakhshani Dorsa IRI 1749 Tehran 1,5 12 Farhadyar Kiana IRI 0 Tehran 1,0 13 Ghayebi Maral IRI 0 Mazandaran 1,0 14 Afshar Niusha IRI 1807 Tehran 1,0 　 Hakimifard Raana IRI 1784 Tehran 1,0 16 Seyfikar Sima IRI 0 Hamedan 1,0 17 Ghaemmaghami Pegah IRI 1580 Tehran 1,0 　 Sayyadi Parisa IRI 0 Golestan 1,0 19 Moradi Kimia IRI 1802 Tehran 1,0 20 Rashvand Avehei Negar IRI 0 Karadj 1,0 21 Azizi Khatere IRI 0 Gilan 1,0 22 Nikrou Noushin IRI 1555 Karadj 1,0 　 Omidian Nasab Shadi IRI 0 Tehran 1,0 24 Davoodi Yasaman IRI 0 Hormozgan 0,5 25 Moheimani Shadi IRI 0 Golestan 0,5 26 Khandan Zahra IRI 0 Golestan 0,0 27 Eftekhari S Mehrnaz IRI 0 Gilan 0,0 　 Mirzaei Negar IRI 0 Tehran 0,0 29 Ghaziolsharif Kimiya IRI 0 Tehran 0,0 　 Rezaei Panah Maedeh IRI 0 Tehran 0,0 31 Zare Zahra IRI 0 Yazd 0,0 32 Najafi Morvarid IRI 0 Tehran 0,0 　 Sadoughi Solmaz IRI 0 Tehran 0,0 34 Assadi Sara IRI 0 Tehran 0,0 　 Ghafouri Sima IRI 0 Tehran 0,0 36 Hamidi Kousha Nazli IRI 0 Hamedan 0,0 37 WFM Hakimifard Ghazal IRI 2072 Tehran 0,0