I played a chess game against someone in Iran. According to his profile (thanks Google Translate) he is big fan of Alireza Firouzja.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alireza_Firouzja

Alireza Firouzja (Persian: علی‌رضا فیروزجا‎, Persian pronunciation: [æliːɾezɑː fiːɾuːzˈdʒɑː]; born 18 June 2003) is an Iranian chess player. He won the Iranian Chess Championship at the age of 12 and earned the Grandmaster title at the age of 14. He is the second-youngest player ever to reach a rating of 2700 (after Wei Yi), at the age of 16 years and 1 month. As of November 2019, Firouzja was the No. 1 ranked Iranian player and the No. 1 U16 player in the world with a FIDE rating of 2720. In December 2019, he announced that he would no longer play under the Iranian flag after Iran withdrew its players from the 2019 World Rapid and Blitz Championship to uphold their ban against Iranians playing against Israelis. Firouzja is currently based in France and announced in early 2020 his intention to play under the French flag.