Iranian Women Finally Get Their Moment at a Soccer Match

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Iranian Women Finally Get Their Moment at a Soccer Match

Government allows women to buy tickets to the national’s team match after pressure from FIFA; ‘people were crying with excitement’/ Thousands of women bought tickets to an international soccer match in Iran after being allowed to do so for the first time in four decades, cheering on the national team in a watershed moment for a daring women’s rights movement. A de facto ban on women in soccer stadiums since just after the 1979 revolution has long been a rallying cry for proponents of social freedom in Iran. It has hit home in a country ...

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Oct 10, 2019

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