{"id":33748,"date":"2018-10-16T19:59:50","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T02:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=33748"},"modified":"2018-10-16T19:59:50","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T02:59:50","slug":"iran-women-attend-international-football-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/10\/16\/iran-women-attend-international-football-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran women attend international football match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SuperSport &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Some 100 Iranian women were allowed to watch their country take on Bolivia in a friendly football match at the national stadium on Tuesday, an AFP journalist said, an extremely rare step in the Islamic republic.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Women have been barred from attending matches since the 1979 Islamic revolution, with authorities saying they must be protected from the masculine atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>But on Tuesday the female fans were permitted to cheer on their team with horns and national flags from a separate stand inside the stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The show of support came after Tehran&#8217;s authorities ruled that a certain number of women could attend the international friendly against Bolivia in Azadi stadium, Varzesh3 sports site reported ahead of the game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The women allowed to enter Azadi Stadium tonight include the national football team&#8217;s family members, the national women&#8217;s football and futsal teams, the football federation&#8217;s female employees and of course a number of female football fans,&#8221; the site said.<\/p>\n<p>The ban on women in stadiums has been frequently criticised from across the political spectrum.<\/p>\n<p>Women were permitted to enter the 100 000-capacity Azadi (meaning &#8220;freedom&#8221;) stadium during the World Cup for a live screening of Iran&#8217;s match against Portugal on June 25.<\/p>\n<p>A number of female members of parliament were invited to attend Iran&#8217;s World Cup qualifier against Syria in September 2017, and at least one confirmed their attendance.<\/p>\n<p>The Iran-Bolivia match is Iran&#8217;s second exhibition game before it is off to the United Arab Emirates for the AFC Asian Cup in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SuperSport &#8211; TEHRAN, Some 100 Iranian women were allowed to watch their country take on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":33749,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,91,86,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-uncategorized"],"views":1048,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33748","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=33748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33750,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33748\/revisions\/33750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}