Iran allows women into soccer match for the first time in 35 years
Iranian women cheer as they wave their country's flag during a friendly soccer match between Iran and Bolivia Tuesday at the Azadi Stadium in Tehran. In a rare move, authorities allowed a select group of women to attend a men's game. (Vahid Salemi/Associated Press)/ In 2006, Iran’s president tried to restore one small piece of the civil liberties the Islamic Republic had repressed since its 1979 revolution. Then-President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rescinded the decades-old ban on female spectators at men’s soccer matches. Iran’s religious leaders ...
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