Iran’s government allows women to buy tickets to Iranian national team game after pressure from FIFA
Thousands of women bought tickets to an international soccer match in Iran for the first time in four decades, cheering on the national team on Thursday 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 where soccer is the most popular sport by far, and the movement became an international cause last month after a young woman set herself...
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