News Forum - Iran still bars women from football stadiums, officials express disagreement

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Women in Iran still can’t enjoy watching football matches at the country’s stadiums. On Tuesday, about 2,000 women who bought tickets for the World Cup qualifier against Lebanon went to a stadium in Mashad, but couldn’t enter, according to Iranian media. The Islamic republic has banned women from sports stadiums since its government came to power in 1979. Since then, religious clerics have held political power in Iran. Clerics argue that women shouldn’t see men wearing revealing athletic clothing. But after this recent incident, some officials are speaking out in disagreement. Iran’s attorney general Mohammad Jafar Montazeri spoke about the […]

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[DoUKnowWhoIAm]

45 minutes ago, Thaiger said:

Clerics argue that women shouldn’t see men wearing revealing athletic clothing.

Part of their strategy to prevent  flodding.

[MikeW]

But it is ok for Iranian men to come here and ogle half naked Thai women what a bunch of hypocrites 

[TheDirtyDurian]

4 minutes ago, MikeW said:

But it is ok for Iranian men to come here and ogle half naked Thai women what a bunch of hypocrites 

Yet again, people mistakenly conflating government actions with the general populace's behaviour. 

[Noble_Design]

12 hours ago, Thaiger said:

Clerics argue that women shouldn’t see men wearing revealing athletic clothing.

The clerics are worried that Iranian women will all be doing this: