Iranian Women's fans cheer during the FIFA World Cup Qualifier match between Iran and Cambodia at Azadi Stadium on October 10, 2019 in Tehran, Iran./ TEHRAN, Iran – Thousands of flag-draped women cheered, blew horns and celebrated inside a stadium Thursday as they watched the first FIFA soccer ...
Iranian women will be allowed to watch the country's men's national team in a World Cup qualifier, after being banned from attending men's games for 40 years/ Iranian women will officially be able to enter and watch a men's soccer match for the first time in decades on Thursday. FIFA, soccer's ...
Iranian female soccer fan 'blue girl' dies after setting herself on fire. She was being charged with being dressed as a man to watch a soccer game. Women are not allowed to enter the soccer stadium in Iran./ will be allowed to enter a football stadium this week for the first time in nearly 40 ...
As thousands of Iranian women young and old made their way inside Tehran’s Azadi Stadium on Thursday to watch the World Cup qualifying match between the Iranian and Cambodian men’s teams, the excitement was palpable. The sea of cheering women grew louder as they took their seats in women’s-only ...
, wearing jester hats and face paint, blew horns and cheered Thursday at the first match they've been allowed to freely attend in nearly 40 years./ In what many considered a victory in a decadeslong fight by women in Iran to attend sporting events, they wrapped themselves in the country's flag ...
For years, Zeinab Sahafi disguised herself as a man to slip into soccer matches in Iran. But when the government finally opened stadiums to women, she was left out./ ISTANBUL — Zeinab Sahafi didn’t want to be an activist. All she ever wanted to be, she said, was a regular fan, another of the ...
These are external links and will open in a new window/ These are external links and will open in a new window/ Iranian women have attended a World Cup qualifier in Tehran after being freely allowed to enter a stadium for a men's match for the first time in decades. Women have effectively been ...
Iranian sports journalist Raha Purbakhsh shows off her ticket to attend a World Cup qualifier in front of Azadi Stadium in Tehran on Tuesday. Iran has essentially banned women from entering the stadium for decades./ Iranian sports journalist Raha Purbakhsh shows off her ticket to attend a World ...
The few ticket holders expressed joy at finally being able to share in the passion for the national soccer team./ A select group of women, chosen by the authorities, were allowed to attend a friendly match in 2018 in Tehran. But women were generally banned from stadiums./ When Iran’s national ...
Iran's World Cup qualifier against Cambodia on Thursday will be a landmark moment for the country, as women will be able to officially enter a football stadium for the first time in decades./ The initial allocation of 3,500 tickets for female fans was quickly sold out -- r -- before an ...
Iranian female soccer fans entered the national stadium for the first time in 40 years Thursday to watch their side thrash Cambodia 14-0 in Tehran./ Iran's ban on women attending sports stadiums is not written into law but was put in place shortly after the 1979 Islamic Revolution./ Iranian ...
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 ...
After a ban lasting nearly four decades, Iranian women will finally be allowed to watch a men's soccer match at Tehran's Azadi Stadium on October 10 as Iran takes on Cambodia in a World Cup qualifier. Many women -- particularly those lucky to have secured one of only 3,500 tickets allotted for ...
My country’s exclusion of its 41 million women from sports stadiums is a clear violation of the organization’s charter and of our human rights./ I grew up in the Iranian city of Shiraz after the 1979 revolution. Girls like me were barred from going to stadiums to watch sports because, our ...
Iranian women attend Iran's World Cup Asian qualifier against Cambodia at the Azadi stadium in Tehran, Iran October 10, 2019. Nazanin Tabatabaee/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS/ HONG KONG (Reuters) - Iran made it a night to remember for female fans allowed into the Azadi Stadium for a ...
Iranian women entered the country’s national stadium in Tehran on Thursday after being able to purchase tickets for a national team game for the first time in 40 years./ FILE PHOTO: Soccer Football - World Cup - Group B - Morocco vs Iran - Saint Petersburg Stadium, Saint Petersburg, Russia - ...
(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 ...
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 ...
Iranian women have attended a World Cup qualifier in Tehran for a men's match for the first time in decades. Women have effectively been banned from stadiums when men are playing since just after the 1979 Islamic revolution. The change followed the death of a fan who had set herself alight after ...
Watch video Elated female fans wore the national green, white and red flag around their shoulders and over their hair as they streamed into a tiny section of Tehran’s Azadi Stadium for Iran’s 2022 World Cup qualifier against Cambodia./ Waving flags and snapping selfies, thousands of Iranian ...
Iran made it a night to remember for female fans allowed into the for a World Cup qualifying match for the first time since the Islamic Revolution as they inflicted a record-breaking 14-0 thrashing on Cambodia on Thursday. Striker Karim Ansarifard scored four goals and Sardar Azmoun hit a ...
The sight of thousands of Iranian women embracing their first chance to lawfully attend a football match was thrilling. If only it hadn’t come at such a cost/ This week, thousands of Iranian women lawfully attended a football game for the first time since 1981. The gates of the stadium where the ...
Thousands of Iranian women were allowed to attend a professional soccer game for the first time in 40 years during the country's World Cup qualifier against Cambodia on Thursday. for women to attend the game in Tehran's Azadi stadium, and an additional 1,100 were released after the initial lot ...
Waving flags and snapping selfies, thousands of Iranian women on Thursday attended a football match freely for the first time in decades, after FIFA threatened to suspend the country over its controversial stadium restrictions. Elated female fans wore the national green, white and red flag ...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke after discussing Hamas's response with Qatar's prime minister in Doha/ US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Hamas has proposed "numerous changes" to a US-backed plan for a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal, which currently hangs in the ...
Pictures from the scene show the fire-damaged building/ At least 35 people have been killed in a fire at a residential building in the Kuwaiti city of Mangaf, the interior ministry says. Video shared on social media showed flames engulfing the lower part of the building and thick black smoke ...
run authorities in Gaza say dozens of homes were damaged during the operation/ The UN human rights office says it is “profoundly shocked” at the impact on civilians of the Israeli operation in central Gaza that rescued four hostages held by Hamas. Palestinian health officials said hundreds of ...
Roquel Payton, from left, Alexander Morris, and Ronnie McNeir of the Four Tops perform at the All In Music & Arts Festival in Indianapolis on Sept. 3, 2022. Morris filed a lawsuit Monday against Ascension Macomb-Oakland Hospital in Warren, Mich. He is claiming racial discrimination and other ...
After deliberating for approximately three hours spread over two days, jurors in Wilmington, Delaware, reached a guilty verdict against The charges stemmed from his 2018 purchase of a firearm, wherein he was accused of falsely denying drug use on his application and unlawfully possessing the ...
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A big, round, 4,000-year-old stone building discovered on a Cretan hilltop is puzzling archaeologists and threatening to disrupt a major airport project on the Greek tourist island. Greece's Culture Ministry said Tuesday that the structure is a “unique and extremely ...
The US is pushing for Israel and Hamas to reach a ceasefire deal/ US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has "reaffirmed his commitment" to a Gaza ceasefire plan, and that if it does not progress Hamas will be to blame. Mr Blinken reiterated his ...
The boat capsized off waters near Yemen's port city of Aden (file photo from 2019)/ At least 49 people from the Horn of Africa have died after their boat capsized off the coast of Yemen, according to the UN's International Organization for Migration (IOM). Among the dead were six children and 31 ...
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — After weeks of dry and hot weather, we finally have widespread chances for rain setting in overnight Monday into early Tuesday morning. The downpours will build after midnight in Sarasota, Manatee, Hardee, DeSoto, and Highlands counties. After sunrise, the showers will begin ...
Republican presidential candidate, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally Sunday, June 9, 2024, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)/ WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal judge presiding over the against former President Donald Trump and two of his associates struck a paragraph from ...