Dubai — Iranian women fans will be allowed to attend a men’s football World Cub qualifying match in the Islamic Republic in October, the official Irna news agency quoted a sports ministry official as saying on Sunday, amid heightened pressure from Fifa.
While foreign women have been allowed limited access to matches in Iran, Iranian women have been banned from stadiums when men’s teams are playing since the Islamic revolution in 1979...
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