Iran's female fans find soccer buzz in cafes and malls
On match days Iran’s young female soccer fans cram Tehran’s shopping centers and cafes, their faces painted with the Iranian flag and beaming with excitement, as they follow their national team on giant television screens alongside male fans. Iranian women have been banned from men’s soccer matches at football stadiums in the country since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, but that has done nothing to dampen their determination to enjoy it. Iranian female fans have long campaigned to be allowed to watch men’s soccer and occasionally a limited ...
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