NYL:

A top soccer player on the Iranian women’s national team says she was booted from the squad after government officials found out she played in an exhibition game while not wearing a hijab — during a trip outside the country — and played alongside male players. In an interview with Masih Alinejad of the My Stealthy Freedom Facebook page, longtime player Shiva Amini said she was visiting Switzerland and Italy and “playing in friendly games” when the offense occurred. An innocuous photo snapped in Zurich that she posted on Instagram showed her heading a soccer ball and in the image, no veil was covering her hair and she was wearing shorts, another offense in the eyes of officials at the Iranian Futsal Federation, which oversees the women’s team.

This is not the first time the Iranian soccer team has faced static over the headscarf. In 2012, the Iranian women’s team was barred by FIFA from competing in the Olympics because they are forced to wear the hijab. At the time, the garment was deemed “an infringement of the rules of the game,” according to an Associated Press report. And as Alinejad pointed out, government officials dictating what women wear is par for the course in Iran. Most recently, Iranian state TV went to the ludicrous extreme of crudely Photoshopping more clothes onto Charlize Theron in a clip from the Oscars that was shown on the news there.

Go to link