By Amir Vahdat and Mehdi Fattahi Published 12:42 pm PDT, Thursday, October 10, 2019 Iranian women cheer during a World Cup qualification match between Iran and Cambodia at the Azadi stadium in Tehran. Iranian women cheer during a World Cup qualification match between Iran and Cambodia at the Azadi stadium in Tehran. Photo: ATTA KENARE / AFP Via Getty Images Photo: ATTA KENARE / AFP Via Getty Images Image 1 of / 1 Caption Close Image 1 of 1 Iranian women cheer during a World Cup qualification match between Iran and Cambodia at the Azadi stadium in Tehran. Iranian women cheer during a World Cup qualification match between Iran and Cambodia at the Azadi stadium in Tehran. Photo: ATTA KENARE / AFP Via Getty Images Iran women freely watch soccer match, 1st time in decades 1 / 1 Back to Gallery TEHRAN — 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 Tehran’s Azadi Stadium marks a decades-long push by Iranian women to be able to watch soccer matches, something hard-liners in Iran’s Shiite theocracy to this day still oppose. Iran allocated only 4,000 tickets for women in a stadium that seats about 80,000 people, keeping them separated from men and under the protection of female police officers. That’s even though face-painted Iranian women have cheered… [Read full story]
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