Iran Women Attend FIFA Soccer Game For First Time In Decades
Women have been banned from many sporting events in Iran since 1981, during the early years of the country’s Islamic Revolution./ TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — They had to sit well apart from the men, and the stadium was practically empty, but thousands of Iranian women in merry jester hats and face paint blew horns and cheered Thursday at the first FIFA soccer match they were allowed to freely attend in decades./ In what many considered a victory in a decades-long fight by women in Iran to attend sporting events, they wrapped themselves in the ...
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