[URL]http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-43243414[/URL]
[QUOTE]Iran has detained 35 women for trying to attend a football match.
They tried to go to a game between Tehran teams Esteqlal and Persepolis. Iran said they were temporarily held and would be released after the match.
Fifa's president, Gianni Infantino, was also in attendance, along with Iranian Sport Minister Masoud Soltanifar.
A live broadcast was taken off the air when a journalist asked Mr Soltanifar when women would be allowed to attend football matches.
According to the semi-official ISNA news agency, Iranian interior ministry spokesman Seyyed Salman Samani said the female football fans were not arrested - but transferred to a "proper place" by police.
Earlier reports said two women were held.
Iran has barred women from attending football games since the Iranian Revolution in 1979.
There were calls on social media before the match for women to protest against the ban outside the Azadi stadium today.
Women's rights activist [URL="https://twitter.com/AlinejadMasih/status/968935996283936768/photo/1"]Masih Alinejad on Wednesday called on women to attend Thursday's match[/URL].
"The Fifa president will be in the stadium tomorrow (1 March)," she wrote.
"I wish women would gather outside the stadium to ask men not to enter without them."
[URL="https://twitter.com/zilllan79/status/968943019503202304/photo/1"]Another user said it was a "basic right" for women to enter stadiums with men[/URL], and said this match was "the best chance to break the 35-year-old taboo".
Azadi means "freedom" stadium in Persian, and one Twitter user pointed out the hypocrisy of "naming a stadium freedom but banning half the population from entering".[/QUOTE]
Good luck getting Fifa to actually comment on it.
it's bizarre to think that women have no rights in a lot of the world in this day and age. with all the science, education and technology we have there are still completely backward ass countries.
[QUOTE=Clovis;53173671]I was just about to say I'm amazed this is a headline in the year 2018[/QUOTE]
You must have been ignoring all news about the Middle East for like what, the last 4 decades, if this amazed you.
[QUOTE=Clovis;53173671]I was just about to say I'm amazed this is a headline in the year 2018[/QUOTE]
You must have a very narrow view of the world, then
Whenever Iran is mentioned I can't help but remember this: [url]http://www.businessinsider.com/iran-before-the-revolution-in-photos-2015-4/[/url]
The notes on the photos give some basic context since not everything was done all dandy of course.
I can't help but think of this
[video]https://youtu.be/MIaORknS1Dk?t=36[/video]
whenever these sort of things pop up out of iran or saudi arabia
[QUOTE=Murkrow;53175152]Whenever Iran is mentioned I can't help but remember this: [url]http://www.businessinsider.com/iran-before-the-revolution-in-photos-2015-4/[/url]
The notes on the photos give some basic context since not everything was done all dandy of course.[/QUOTE]
That was similar to Afghanistan, back in the day - my dad was in the merchant navy in those days, so he used to sail frequently to Tehran and Kabul. Rich upper class women used to buy BSAs and Nortons and ride/race them around town. From my dad's point of view, visiting Iran was as close to being in Europe you could get being in the Middle East. Even Egypt was like that:
[video=youtube;jzBVCcpn_iY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzBVCcpn_iY[/video]
That time has long since passed. If anything, what remains is a testament to the base fact that change comes from within; if the majority do not agree to what's being forced on them, they'll only push back harder.
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