Iranian Women Allowed at FIFA Soccer Match for First Time in Decades

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Iranian Women Allowed at FIFA Soccer Match for First Time in Decades

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Iranian Women Allowed at FIFA Soccer Match for First Time in Decades

(TEHRAN, Iran) — Thousands of flag-draped Iranian women cheered, blew horns and celebrated inside a Tehran stadium Thursday as they watched the first FIFA soccer match they’ve been allowed to freely attend in decades. The 2022 World Cup qualifier between the Iranian national team and Cambodia at Tehran’s Azadi Stadium marks a decades-long push by Iranian women to be able to watch soccer matches, something hard-liners in Iran’s Shiite theocracy to this day still oppose. allocated only 4,000 tickets for women in a stadium that seats about ...

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Oct 10, 2019

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