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Iran lifts 40-year ban on women entering football stadiums
FoxNews ^
| 10-9-19
Posted on 10/09/2019 3:28:39 PM PDT by nuconvert
Iranian women will be allowed to enter a football stadium this week for the first time in nearly 40 years after pressure from soccer’s governing body FIFA forced Iran to lift its male-only policy, according to FIFA and state-run media.
FIFA ordered Iran to end its ban on letting women enter stadiums during an inspection visit last month. The organization said the ban breaches international soccer statutes prohibiting discrimination.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fifa; football; iran; soccer; sports; women
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posted on
10/09/2019 3:28:40 PM PDT
by
nuconvert
Last sentence of the story...
“Iran’s Fars News Agency said the women who attend Thursday’s match will be segregated from the men and monitored by 150 female police officers. “
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posted on
10/09/2019 3:29:10 PM PDT
by
nuconvert
( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
To: nuconvert
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posted on
10/09/2019 3:29:51 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: nuconvert
As long as you can only see their eyes and a man has their arm.
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posted on
10/09/2019 3:30:28 PM PDT
by
Cowgirl
To: nuconvert
You mean when they aren't going to be publicly executed?
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posted on
10/09/2019 3:31:31 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Convicted spies are shot, traitors are hanged, saboteurs are subject to summary execution...)
To: BenLurkin
Now the wimmen can bitch about long lines at the ladies room.
Ah, liberation.
To: FirstFlaBn
LoL about the ladies room lines 😂
To: nuconvert
Women have always been welcome in Iran's Stadiums!
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posted on
10/09/2019 3:37:47 PM PDT
by
ETCM
To: nuconvert
Women can attend soccer games. Will this oppressive torture toward women never end!!!???
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posted on
10/09/2019 3:39:38 PM PDT
by
fhayek
To: ETCM
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posted on
10/09/2019 3:42:23 PM PDT
by
nuconvert
( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
To: nuconvert
One more thing Jimmy Carter ushered in, with his improvements for Iran.
Under the Shah, Western societal norms were more the normal status in Iran.
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posted on
10/09/2019 3:43:34 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(This space for rent.)
To: DoughtyOne
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posted on
10/09/2019 3:44:19 PM PDT
by
nuconvert
( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
To: nuconvert
Will that be unlucky for Iran like the superstition of letting a woman on a ship?/s
Getting in step with the times after 1300.
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posted on
10/09/2019 3:48:04 PM PDT
by
frank ballenger
(End vote fraud & harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
To: nuconvert
Yes, I know it’s AFG, and Iran hangs their women. It’s satire, and pretty much on point.
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posted on
10/09/2019 3:49:07 PM PDT
by
ETCM
To: ETCM
Islam’s way of getting their minds right.
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posted on
10/09/2019 3:50:08 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(This space for rent.)
To: nuconvert
Weren’t they letting them in before to cut off their heads?
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posted on
10/09/2019 4:24:05 PM PDT
by
PTBAA
To: nuconvert
Who will the babes root for? Crap, here we go again...
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posted on
10/09/2019 6:08:18 PM PDT
by
Libloather
(CHANGE CLIMATE CHANGE!)
To: null and void
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posted on
10/10/2019 4:32:14 AM PDT
by
trebb
(Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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