{"id":12204,"date":"2011-06-07T00:29:37","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T07:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/06\/07\/fifa-rejects-iran-complaint-over-islamic-scarf-ban\/"},"modified":"2011-06-07T00:29:37","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T07:29:37","slug":"fifa-rejects-iran-complaint-over-islamic-scarf-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/06\/07\/fifa-rejects-iran-complaint-over-islamic-scarf-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA Rejects Iran Complaint over Islamic Scarf Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayandenews.com\/UserUpload\/Image\/pb-110603-veil-shulman.photoblog900.jpg\" height=\"519\" width=\"749\" \/><\/div>\n<p>AP &#8211; ZURICH, <strong>FIFA says its match officials were right to stop Iran\u2019s  women\u2019s team from playing a 2012 Olympic qualifier wearing Islamic head  scarves.<\/strong><br \/> <strong><br \/> <\/strong>Iranian officials were \u201cinformed thoroughly\u201d before Friday\u2019s match  against Jordan that the hijab scarf covering a women\u2019s neck is banned  for safety reasons, FIFA says.<\/p>\n<p> Iran\u2019s soccer association has said it will complain about the FIFA delegate from Bahrain who ordered the match abandoned.<\/p>\n<p> Jordanian officials accepted the rule and \u201cdecided not to select a number of players,\u201d FIFA says.<\/p>\n<p> FIFA banned the hijab in 2007 and has extended the safety rule to include neck warmers.<\/p>\n<p> At the 2010 Youth Olympics, Iran\u2019s girls protected their modesty by covering their hair with specially designed caps.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayandenews.com\/UserUpload\/Image\/IMAGE634428024201990002.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayandenews.com\/UserUpload\/Image\/93397352957214567224.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AP &#8211; ZURICH, FIFA says its match officials were right to stop Iran\u2019s women\u2019s team&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":6357,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}