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On June 20, Iranian women were allowed, for the first time since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, to watch a televised match of their national team against Spain at the 2018 World Cup.
Films published from the event shows that women have removed their scarves and started to sing and dance, Montazeri claimed in a speech on Sunday, June 25 and described the scenes as “disgraceful”.
“Unfortunately, some individuals have penetrated the key institutions of the country and are about to betray the revolution and the blood of our martyrs,” chief prosecutor said. They were wrong if they believed that they could implement their “satanic” policies, he added.
Iran’s ministry of interior had previously described the experiment as “successful a effort to respond to a ‘social demand’, adding that Iranian women will allowed to enter the Azadi Stadium on Monday June 25 to watch the football match between Iran’s national team and Portugal.
The statements by the Prosecutor-General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri earned him some ridicule on the web. “The chief prosecutor has said that he is ashamed to say what has happened at Azadi Stadium. For a second, I thought, someone has sold his kidney there, or his child, or a woman has offered her body there due to poverty, and this is what has shamed the prosecutor. But no, he has said that the women have removed their scarves and danced! Oh, how shameful!”, writes an Iranian Twitter user in a post that has been liked by ca. 6000 people.
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