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 ...
It may be spring, but it’s not too soon to look ahead to summer weather, especially when – is rapidly weakening and will all but vanish by the time the season kicks into gear. El Niño’s disappearing act doesn’t mean relief from the heat. Not when the world is heating up due to climate change. In ...
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Sam Attar reckons he left part of his soul in Gaza. It was the part of him that saw suffering and could not turn away. The part which now cannot forget./ You can be on the shores of Lake Michigan on an overcast spring day, the wind whipping up waves on the green water. And at the very same time ...
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says the US is the only country that can stop Israel from attacking Rafah, the southern Gaza city where more than a million people are taking refuge./ Mr Abbas, who runs parts of the occupied West Bank, said any attack could see Palestinians flee Gaza./ On ...
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(FOX40.COM) — The California Department of Transportation is reminding drivers of various lane closures and delays that will take place along Interstate 80 beginning on Sunday and lasting until Thursday in some parts of Northern California. Caltrans said it performed an “extensive field review” ...
Maryam Alwan figured the worst was over after New York City police in riot gear arrested her and other protesters on the Columbia University campus, loaded them onto buses and held them in custody for hours. But the next evening, the college junior received an email from the university. Alwan ...
News in the Middle East moves fast. One moment it is all about unprecedented missile and drone attacks between Iran and Israel. The next the headlines return to the fighting and suffering in Gaza./ But policymakers, analysts and military leaders are still absorbing the extraordinary exchange of ...
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