The Iranian football federation has called on parliament to pass a law allowing female spectators to be present in stadiums, which has so far been banned, its secretary general Hassan Kamrani Far said.
“A bill has been sent by the Iranian Football Federation to the Islamic National Assembly.
Once approved, the presence of women will be authorized, ”he said during a meeting Thursday evening and whose remarks are reported by the Tasnim agency.
Problem, Parliament is largely dominated by ultraconservatives and clerics who have so far opposed such a presence.
Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, Iranian women have been denied access to stadiums, officially to protect them from male rudeness.
October 2019, a sword in the water
FIFA has been pushing for years for Iran to open its stadiums to women, but until 2019 Tehran had only allowed a limited number of women until 2019 (at most a thousand female supporters in November 2018) to attend a few meetings.
In October 2019, they had exceptionally been able to attend the match, in the Azadi stadium in Tehran, of the Iranian men's team against Cambodia in the knockout meeting for the 2022 World Cup. At the beginning of October, the women hoped to find their way back to the stands in Tehran for the qualifying match against South Korea but it was ultimately played behind closed doors without explanation from the federation.
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