{"id":3065,"date":"2022-03-30T07:45:02","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T07:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linksus.net\/iran-blocked-women-from-attending-football-match-reports-the-indian-express\/"},"modified":"2022-03-30T07:45:02","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T07:45:02","slug":"iran-blocked-women-from-attending-football-match-reports-the-indian-express","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/2022\/03\/30\/iran-blocked-women-from-attending-football-match-reports-the-indian-express\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran blocked women from attending football match: Reports – The Indian Express"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iran blocked women from attending the country\u2019s last 2022 World Cup soccer qualifying match Tuesday, the semi-official ISNA news agency reported.
ISNA said 12,500 tickets were sold online, of which 2,000 had been reserved for women. Iran defeated Lebanon 2-0 in the match. A victory in January over Iraq assured the team a spot in the World Cup in Qatar.
A video circulating on social media shows hundreds of female soccer fans chanting \u201cwe have an objection\u201d in response to the decision to ban them from attending the match in the northeastern city of Mashhad.
It was not immediately clear who made the decision to block the women from attending the match.
Khabaronline, an Iranian news website, said that \u201cdespite tickets being sold, women are still not allowed to attend the stadium.\u201d
Mar. 29 – Mashhad, NE #Iran<\/a>
A large number of women protested today because they were banned (despite buying tickets) from entering the stadium where Iran&Lebanon were to compete in a soccer match.
According to the mullahs, it’s unsuitable for women to watch sports matches. pic.twitter.com\/MAF7XC5t9C<\/a>
\u2014 Iran News Wire (@IranNW) March 29, 2022<\/a>
FIFA has long demanded Iran provide assurances that women will be allowed to attend 2022 World Cup qualifiers. Women have been mainly prohibited from attending men\u2019s games and other sports events in Iran since the 1979 Islamic revolution.
Ahmad Alamolhoda, Friday prayer leader in Mashhad, who was appointed by the country\u2019s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said he is always against the presence of women as spectators in men\u2019s sports competitions. He called their attendance \u201cvulgarity.”
Team captain Alireza Jahanbakhsh, in a post-match interview, said it would be great to see women in stadiums in the future because they also enjoy seeing the national team, known as \u201cTeamMelli,” win.
In January, more than 2,000 female spectators were in Azadi stadium in Tehran when the national team defeated Iraq by one goal to become the first Asian group team to qualify for the World Cup. It was the second major soccer event Iranian women watched in the stadium.
In 2019 and for the first time in decades, for the Asian Champions League final, hundreds of Iranian women were allowed to watch Persepolis play the Kashima Antlers of Japan in Tehran.
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