LONDON: Iranian women will be allowed to watch the national soccer team play on Thursday for the first time in over 40 years, but campaigners are not convinced the match against Cambodia heralds a wider opening up of sports by the government.
"The thing that happened to Sahar, FIFA were sort of responsible for that, because they knew this for years and they should've done it a lot sooner," said 'Sara', whose Open Stadiums group has campaigned for women's access for 15 years. Iranian women have been banned from stadiums hosting men's soccer matches since just after the 1979 Islamic revolution.
At Iran's friendly against Syria in June, women were locked out of the Azadi Stadium. Some were detained by security forces. "Also when you have to be separated from your family, it's difficult because it should be a family sport ... Some of the mothers were asking how they'd manage to go there with their young sons," she said."It could be managed a lot better."
"It's not just about football. People are doing this just to show that if you give capacity to us, we will use it."
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