Iran blocked girls from attending the nation’s final 2022 World Cup soccer qualifying match Tuesday, the semi-official ISNA information company reported.
ISNA stated 12,500 tickets had been bought on-line, of which 2,000 had been reserved for girls. Iran defeated Lebanon 2-0 within the match. A victory in January over Iraq assured the group a spot within the World Cup in Qatar.
A video circulating on social media reveals tons of of feminine soccer followers chanting “we have an objection” in response to the choice to ban them from attending the match within the northeastern metropolis of Mashhad.
It was not instantly clear who made the choice to dam the ladies from attending the match.
Khabaronline, an Iranian information web site, stated that “despite tickets being sold, women are still not allowed to attend the stadium.”
Mar. 29 – Mashhad, NE #Iran
Numerous girls protested immediately as a result of they had been banned (regardless of shopping for tickets) from coming into the stadium the place Iran&Lebanon had been to compete in a soccer match.
According to the mullahs, it is unsuitable for girls to look at sports activities matches. pic.twitter.com/MAF7XC5t9C— Iran News Wire (@IranNW) March 29, 2022
FIFA has lengthy demanded Iran present assurances that girls might be allowed to attend 2022 World Cup qualifiers. Women have been primarily prohibited from attending males’s video games and different sports activities occasions in Iran because the 1979 Islamic revolution.
Ahmad Alamolhoda, Friday prayer chief in Mashhad, who was appointed by the nation’s supreme chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, stated he’s at all times towards the presence of girls as spectators in males’s sports activities competitions. He known as their attendance “vulgarity.”
Team captain Alireza Jahanbakhsh, in a post-match interview, stated it will be nice to see girls in stadiums sooner or later as a result of additionally they get pleasure from seeing the nationwide group, often called “TeamMelli,” win.
In January, greater than 2,000 feminine spectators had been in Azadi stadium in Tehran when the nationwide group defeated Iraq by one objective to develop into the primary Asian group group to qualify for the World Cup. It was the second main soccer occasion Iranian girls watched within the stadium.
In 2019 and for the primary time in many years, for the Asian Champions League remaining, tons of of Iranian girls had been allowed to look at Persepolis play the Kashima Antlers of Japan in Tehran.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
