TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has called for a decadeslong stadium ban for women to be lifted, according to statement issued by the president’s office Tuesday.
“There 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,” Rouhani said at a meeting with Iranian athletes at his office, according to the statement.
Women have been banned from stadiums in Iran for 39 years. The ban was imposed by the religious leadership after the 1979 revolution.
Iran’s influential clerics believe women have no place in football stadiums where men are over-excited and vulgar slogans are shouted.
Rouhani rejected these claims, saying women should not be punished for men being vulgar at sporting events.
Vice President Masoumeh Ebtekar has suggested that special sections for women or for families in Iran’s arenas could help end the stadium ban.
The clergy has rejected these suggestions.
Protests against the ban have grown in recent months, most noticeably around a World Cup qualifier in September against Syria when Syrian women were allowed to attend the game in Tehran but Iranian women were not — a move Iran’s parliament named “regrettable and annoying discrimination.”
He can call for as many changes as he wishes; but the bitter fact of a showcase president in a mullacratic regime calls for one thing only: Total regime change, void of ifs, ands or buts...
Well it is small victory even if its not that big of an issue.
Total regime change from comfort of my home in the West would be great. This way I am not risking any and who cares in case of Iran turned to another Iraq, Syria, Libya or Egypt, I am safe.
Yes, Total regime change as long as I don’t have to risk any.
Muller is making America great again
tRump is helping to make Russia great again
Reject occupation, If the bar code starts with 7 29 put it back on the shelf
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“The time is always right to do what is right” – Martin Luther King
Total "liberation of Palestine" and creation of yet another piece-of-garbage Arab state to join the other 20 existing Arab states from the comfort of my home in the West would be great. Illiterate, skunky West-residing IRI Groupies need to realize that not everyone is as stoooopid as they are (LOL).
And we pride ourselves to be the educated one! Openly and unambiguously mocking and rejecting a group of people their home land, the land that they have lived for generation after generation, centuries indeed solely based on their race.
The question to ask ourselves, what is to do with these people if we don’t allow them to live their own land. Exterminate them?!??!
Well the ZioNazi is well on its way, they have certainly created the ghettos and concentration camps.
One wonders what position the racist would take if today was 1939
Muller is making America great again
tRump is helping to make Russia great again
Reject occupation, If the bar code starts with 7 29 put it back on the shelf
Buy American, say NO to Chinese madeTrump
“The time is always right to do what is right” – Martin Luther King