{"id":32000,"date":"2018-05-23T14:24:02","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T21:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=32000"},"modified":"2018-05-23T14:24:02","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T21:24:02","slug":"hassan-rowhani-wants-ban-on-female-fans-in-football-stadiums-lifted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/05\/23\/hassan-rowhani-wants-ban-on-female-fans-in-football-stadiums-lifted\/","title":{"rendered":"Hassan Rowhani wants ban on female fans in football stadiums lifted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today.ng &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>President Hassan Rowhani of Iran has called for a decades-long stadium ban for women to be lifted, according to a statement issued by the president\u2019s office.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere should be no difference between men and women in Islam and for that reason women should also be allowed to take part in sports events,\u201d Rowhani said at a meeting with Iranian athletes at his office, according to the statement.<\/p>\n<p>Women have been banned from stadiums in Iran for 39 years.<\/p>\n<p>The ban was imposed by the religious leadership after the 1979 revolution.<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s influential clergy believe women have no place in football stadiums where men are over-excited and vulgar slogans are shouted.<\/p>\n<p>Rowhani rejected these claims, saying women should not be punished for men being vulgar at sporting events.<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s Vice President Ebtekar Masoumeh has suggested that special sections for women or for families in Iran\u2019s football arenas could help end the stadium ban.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today.ng &#8211; TEHRAN, President Hassan Rowhani of Iran has called for a decades-long stadium ban&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":32001,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,164,136,91,86,1,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-uncategorized","category-womens"],"views":872,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32000","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\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32002,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32000\/revisions\/32002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}