The 2022 World Cup qualifier between the Iranian national team and Cambodia at Tehran's Azadi Stadium marks a decades-long push by Iranian women to be able to watch soccer matches, something hard-liners in Iran's Shiite theocracy to this day still oppose. Iran allocated only 4,000 tickets ...
Another result that confirmsreporting by Iran Internationaland others was the lack of support for Iran’s football (soccer) team in the 2022 World Cup. About half of the respondents in Iran and abroad “state that they feel happy that the soccer team of the Islamic Republic of Iran lost aga...
Iran football team became the 14th team to book their place in the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Moreover, the ‘Persian Leopards’ became the first Asian team to book their place in a major competition. Iran, No. 21 in the current FIFA world rankings, will kick off the World Cup campaign in ...
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DUESSELDORF, Germany (AP) — Saeid Mollaei has been in hiding since he left the Iranian judo team last month, saying he had been ordered to withdraw from the world championships on political grounds.
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TEHRAN, Oct. 27 (MNA) – As his first name is self-explanatory, the bravery of Shoja (meaning brave in Persian) on the football pitch is admirable; the defender who will be a firewall for Iran national football team in World Cup 2022. ...
The generations of Iranian women fighting for freedom - BBC (October 6, 2022) Iran schoolgirls remove hijabs in protests against government - BBC (October 4, 2022) Fifa called on to ban country from World Cup over women's rights - BBC (September 30, 2022) Iran's anti-veil protests draw...