Iran’s only female Olympic medalist Kimia Alizadeh announced on Instagram Sunday that she has permanently defected from Iran and will stay in Europe. The 21-year-old started her post with “condolences” before explaining her reasons for defecting while on a vacation. “I am one of the millions of oppressed women in Iran who they have been playing with for years.” Alizadeh, who became the first Iranian woman to win an Olympic medal winning a bronze in Taekwondo at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Alizadeh, who is known as “The Tsunami” in Iran, condemned the regime. “They took me wherever they wanted. I wore whatever they said. Every sentence they ordered me to say, I repeated. Whenever they saw fit, they exploited me,” she wrote. “I wasn’t important to them. None of us mattered to them, we were tools. The virtue of a woman is not to stretch her legs!”