'I Feel Like I'm Entering A New World': Iranian Women Excited To Attend Men's Soccer Match For ...

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'I Feel Like I'm Entering A New World': Iranian Women Excited To Attend Men's Soccer Match For ...

After a ban lasting nearly four decades, Iranian women will finally be allowed to watch a men's soccer match at Tehran's Azadi Stadium on October 10 as Iran takes on Cambodia in a World Cup qualifier. Many women -- particularly those lucky to have secured one of only 3,500 tickets allotted for women -- and plenty of men have been celebrating ahead of the occasion, including a Tehran-based journalist who says she's overjoyed. "I feel like I'm entering a new world, a world that is totally unknown," she told RFE/RL's Radio Farda. "I'm full of ...

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Oct 10, 2019

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