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Iran police prevent women from watching football match
Iran Focus ^ | March 2nd, 2006 | Unknown

Posted on 03/02/2006 9:41:19 AM PST by Termite_Commander

Tehran, Iran, Mar. 02 – Iran’s State Security Forces attacked female football fans in Tehran on Wednesday after they held a defiant protest against the government decision to ban women from football stadiums.

Dozens of young women, who had bought tickets and hoped to cheer on their national team, were all banned from entering Tehran’s Azadi Stadium. The ban has been in force for years, but a few dozen women have challenged it in recent months. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s hard-line government recently decided to enforce the ban more strongly.

After being refused entry into the stands, the women organised a demonstration outside the stadium and quickly brought to the scene banners which read, “Azadi Stadium: 100,000 men-only arena” and “We also want to cheer on our national team”

They were immediately threatened with arrest by police who had been placed on standby.

Within minutes, the security forces started to attack the teenage girls and young women. They were all forced into a bus and driven away.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: iran

1 posted on 03/02/2006 9:41:22 AM PST by Termite_Commander
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To: Termite_Commander

what? No football match? That means half the stadium in Ann Arbor will be empty.


2 posted on 03/02/2006 9:42:57 AM PST by llevrok (The answer is often in the question.)
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To: Termite_Commander
They were all forced into a bus and driven away.

The new 'Disappeared'?

3 posted on 03/02/2006 9:44:17 AM PST by null and void (I nominate Sept 11th: "National Moderate Muslim Day of Tacit Approval". - Mr. Rational, paraphrased)
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To: Termite_Commander; Chieftain

Hey American Lib Women.....

coming soon to a stadium in your hometown if you keep appeasing the Islamofascists! (uh, you still don't get it do you?)


4 posted on 03/02/2006 9:44:21 AM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie (Google would sell out America to the highest bidder!)
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To: Termite_Commander

Where is NOW?

ROFLMAO.....


I think all the fems need to get on a plane and head over there at this very minute. I'm willing to buy 1 airline ticket for 1 of them....my gift to their movement.


lol


5 posted on 03/02/2006 9:44:41 AM PST by MadeInAmerica ( - Tested in the Middle East)
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To: Termite_Commander

There's a real social revolution coming to the Islamic republics of Persia and the Middle East and there's not much the reactionaries can do about it.

Women deserve and require full human rights. Not that the UN or US feminists or Hillary Clinton care much about their lack of rights.

It might take fifty or a hundred years but it will happen.


6 posted on 03/02/2006 9:46:42 AM PST by kjo
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To: llevrok

Deep in the third quarter it usually half-empty.

(Unless it is a REALLY close game)


7 posted on 03/02/2006 9:46:53 AM PST by Mikey_1962 (I grew up in a slum, when I got to college it had become a "ghetto".)
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To: Termite_Commander

Of course the NOW gang will remain quiet.


8 posted on 03/02/2006 9:47:33 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Termite_Commander

Where's Oprah when you need her?


9 posted on 03/02/2006 9:47:56 AM PST by Dallas59 ((“You love life, while we love death"( Al-Qaeda & Democratic Party))
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To: Termite_Commander
Iran police prevent women from watching football match

Just another reason Iranians get out of there and come to Los Angeles.

A few years back, when the Iranian team beat the USA team, they had
to close down part of Westwood (south of UCLA). The Iranian expats
(men, women and children) took over the street for a lively, peaceable
celebration.
10 posted on 03/02/2006 9:49:28 AM PST by VOA
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To: dfwgator

Yeah, the NOW gang will remain quiet about this because they are too busy stumping for a woman's right to kill an unborn baby right up to the moment of birth. No time to worry about places where women are *really* second-class citizens.


11 posted on 03/02/2006 10:04:29 AM PST by Emile (Welcome to New Orleans, aka "The Big Chocolate")
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To: kjo
Women deserve and require full human rights. Not that the UN or US feminists or Hillary Clinton care much about their lack of rights.

Yes, persons everywhere deserve full human rights. Unfortunately, the feminists define "human rights" for women as the right to kill their offspring.

12 posted on 03/02/2006 10:07:49 AM PST by Logophile
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To: Termite_Commander

Islam is a religion of tolerance.



13 posted on 03/02/2006 10:08:50 AM PST by Proud_USA_Republican (We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
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To: Termite_Commander
I think we all know the radical islamofacist idea of when women should be allowed in Stadiums.


14 posted on 03/02/2006 10:09:56 AM PST by VRWCmember (You are STILL safer hunting with Dick Cheney than riding in a car with Ted Kennedy!)
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To: Termite_Commander

These Iranian women soccer fans have shown more raw GUTS and raw DECENCY in 10 minutes than the entire American feminist movement has shown in 30 years.

And the American feminists will continue to shun their Iranian "sisters" and continue to appease the loony Imams.


15 posted on 03/02/2006 10:28:24 AM PST by UncleSamUSA (the land of the free and the home of the brave)
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To: Termite_Commander

Forced on a bus , driven away and shot.


16 posted on 03/02/2006 10:40:09 AM PST by Sunshine Sister
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To: Termite_Commander

barefoot and pregnant, praise allah.


17 posted on 03/02/2006 10:41:20 AM PST by kinghorse
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To: Proud_USA_Republican

filthy religion, filthy and disgusting.

ask me how I really feel.


18 posted on 03/02/2006 10:46:38 AM PST by SusaninOhio
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To: VOA

That's pretty cool. The few Iranians I have met in my life have been some of the nicest people I've ever met.

Sometimes I think it takes living *without* freedom to really appreciate having it. These folks sure did.


19 posted on 03/02/2006 11:52:24 AM PST by Bones75
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To: Termite_Commander

This may do more to collapse the Mullahs than any outside influence could.


20 posted on 03/02/2006 11:53:23 AM PST by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch ist der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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