Women in Stadium (Discussion Thread)

[KC McElroy]

I remember we had a member named Rumi who used to claim that women aren't smart enough to know where to go and where not to go and thus he had to decide for them.

[Rooyintan]

Females makeup half of Iran's population, they deserve to watch Team Melli matches live at the stadiums. They are our daughters, our sisters and our mothers. They deserve respect. After all I suggest that those sexists who oppose their attendance at Iran's stadiums be banned from stadiums instead.

Women's presence at Team Melli games is very vital as it will motivate and encourage our Team Melli players to do better and achieve good results. Viva Iran.

[Tehranto]

Sergio Ramos supports Iranian women going to stadium - nice gesture by him!!

[Irandoust]

As long as this regime continues to exist, there will be no reform on anything significant in our country. The only way to have a reform would be through a referendum after a new and a moderate constitution has been written. And that can only happen once this islamic regime meets its total end.

[Tehranto]

IRAN WOMEN'S ACTIVIST SAYS BLOCKED FROM PROTESTING AT RUSSIA WORLD CUP

Maryam Qashqaei Shojaei planned to raise a banner to protest Iran's ban on women attending stadium matches


BEIRUT, June 20 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - An Iranian women's activist said she was stripped of a banner at the World Cup in Russia on Wednesday and blocked from a stadium for two hours after an earlier demonstration drew international headlines.

Maryam Qashqaei Shojaei said she was held for two hours by security officials at the main stadium in Kazan ahead of the match between Iran and Spain, having planned to raise a banner to protest Iran's ban on women attending stadium matches.

"When I was trying to get in with my banner security told me I can't take it in," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone from Kazan.

"I showed them my approval. They searched me and held me two hours and took the banner."

Anton Lisin, a spokesman for Russia's World Cup Local Organising Committee (LOC), said he was aware of an incident involving Shojaei but had no further details.

A spokeswoman for FIFA said world football's governing body was looking into the matter as were the LOC and Russian public security authorities.

"We can confirm that banners supporting female presence in the stadiums in IR Iran were approved by FIFA and the LOC through the formal procedure ahead of the 2018 FIFA World Cup and have already been displayed in the match Morocco vs IR Iran in Saint Petersburg," the spokeswoman said in emailed comments.

"The banners are considered by FIFA to express a social appeal as opposed to a political slogan and were therefore not prohibited under the relevant regulations."

Shojaei made headlines during Iran's first match against Morocco on Friday when she raised a banner in the St. Petersburg stadium with the slogan: "Support Iranian women to attend stadiums #NoBan4Women".

Ahead of the tournament - which is taking place in 11 cities and runs until July 15 - Shojaei launched an online petition urging FIFA President Gianni Infantino to put pressure on Iran to end the ban.

The Islamic Republic has long barred women from attending male soccer matches and other sports fixtures, partly to protect them from hearing fans swear.

Infantino said in May that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani had told him there were plans to allow women to attend matches in the country soon.

In April, female football fans donned fake beards and wigs to attend a major game in Tehran's Azadi Stadium.

The Iranian group OpenStadiums, which is campaigning for women to be allowed to attend sports fixtures, said some women were arrested near the stadium in March during the Esteghlal-Persepolis match.

Iran's team captain Masoud Shojaei said on Tuesday that the World Cup was the wrong place to discuss the issue, although he has previously backed lifting the ban, according to media reports in Iran.

Saudi Arabia last year overturned a ban on women watching sporting events, one of a series of reforms in the deeply conservative Sunni Muslim kingdom. (Reporting By Heba Kanso, Writing By Kieran Guilbert, Editing By Belinda Goldsmith and claire Cozens. Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, women's rights, trafficking, property rights, climate change and resilience. Visit http://news.trust.org)

http://news.trust.org/item/20180620193756-438g6/

[Leicester City]

They just allowed the families in again. People's presssure worked.

Khalah migan "family" Irania engad khalak mizanan

[Tehranto]

Kudos to the tireless female activists who persisted and made this possible. But the Islamic Republic deserves no high praise for reluctantly conceding a fundamental right that Iranian women had before 1979

[Tehranto]

They just allowed the families in again. People's presssure worked.

For such a small thing look how much pressure is needed for them to even say yes. They want us to kick and scream all the way. Poor ladies .

Wow.

[Nokhodi]

They just allowed the families in again. People's presssure worked.

[iranghahreman]

Specific women friendly stadium infrastructure? What the hell does that even mean? Softer seats or shorter steps?

bathrooms etc.

[Epitome]

صوفی*زاده، نایب رییس بانوان فدراسیون فوتبال:
امیدواریم زیرساخت*های لازم برای ورود بانوان به ورزشگاه**ها فراهم شود.

Specific women friendly stadium infrastructure? What the hell does that even mean? Softer seats or shorter steps?

[Roozbeh-G2006]

Disgusting way to deal with our mothers and sisters!

Speechless.

Az maast ke bar maast!

This is the most pathetic and stupidest principle the Islamic government insists upon. Man and women in our society work together and have close contacts 24/7 and yet this pathetic segregation only brings shame to this government and regime. This is beyond belief.

[Tehranto]

سر دادن شعار مقابل #ورزشگاه_آزادی
#گزارشگر #منوتوخبر
شما هم گزارش*های خود را برای ما به ایمیل

Video: https://twitter.com/ManotoNews/statu...73911417921537

[GolfePersique]

Disgusting way to deal with our mothers and sisters!

Speechless.

Az maast ke bar maast!

[Tehranto]

After people actually believed for one second that IR was going to let women in Azadi to watch the game ... they cancelled it. This is the Islamic Republic that some of you naively think is going to be reformed.

اجازه ورود نمی*دهند. مردم هم با بوق زدن اعتراض می*کنند.

Video: https://twitter.com/Sarbehavaa1/stat...59399201579013

Women sitting down in protest.

برای ثبت در تاریخ ؛ زنان و مردان در کنار هم روی زمین مقابل ماموران نیروی انتظامی نشستند در اعتراض به راه ندادن خانواده ها به استادیوم آزادی
#زنان_ورزشگاه