
Iranian women soccer fans allowed into stadium as Tehran loosens ban on female attendance
Reuters. Thousands of female soccer fans were allowed to watch a men’s domestic league match in Tehran on Wednesday (August 31), as Iran loosened a ban that was introduced shortly after the 1979 Islamic revolution. Women flocked to the Azadi stadium, draped in the red of their team, Persepolis F. C, blowing vuvuzela horns…