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Sports Stadiums In Iran Are Women’s Battleground Against A Misogynist Regime Where does FIFA stand? Aug 17, 2019  Iranian women have been struggling to enter sports stadiums for years and have turned them into a  battleground  against the mullahs’ misogynist regime. In recent days, with the  FIFA  warning and setting a deadline for the Iranian regime to allow women to enter the stadiums, the issue has sparked a backlash from government officials and received widespread media coverage. According to a report by Varzesh 3, a state-run website, on August 3, 2019, “The World Football Federation has given the Iranian Federation until August 31, to determine the presence of women in sports stadiums … Dariush Mostafavi, head of the Football Federation’s Professional Licensing Appeals Committee, said: ‘FIFA has given a deadline of August 31, 2019, to determine the presence of women in stadiums and they are very serious about this issue … FIFA says wom...

IRGC Arrests Several Young Women For Entering Sports Stadium The IRGC ( Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ) arrested several young women for attempting to enter Iranian stadiums and transferred them to Qarchak Prison in Varamin. The arrests are said to have taken place upon the president of the Football Federation in Iran, Mehdi Taj’s request from the Revolutionary Guards’ Intelligence Agency to prevent girls from attempting to enter stadiums in Iran for the 2022 World Cup qualification matches. The IRGC Intelligence forces arrested several young women on August 12, 2019, who circumvented Iran’s ban on women in stadiums by entering a stadium disguised as men to watch a football match. Zahra Khoshnavaz, Leili Maleki, and Hedieh Marvasti are among those who were arrested. Forough Alaei, a photographer for Donya-ye Eqtesad is also among those arrested. In recent years, Zahra Khoshnavaz had gone into Azadi Stadium many times wearing male clothes to watch her favorite team ...