The new rule only applies to FOREIGN WOMEN!
After that controversial case of Ghoncheh Ghavami which made world headlines, it looks like Iran doesn’t want to be in the spotlight again for the wrong reasons.
Iran’s Islamic law bars women from watching men playing sports such as volleyball and football and an Iranian-British woman was sentenced to a year in jail last year for protesting outside a volleyball venue.
Ghoncheh Ghavami was released on bail in November after spending five months in detention awaiting trial in a case that raised international awareness of the issue.
As Iran prepares to host the 2015 Asian Men’s Volleyball Championship, it said some women would be let in to a specially created women’s section at Tehran’s 12,000-person arena.
“Foreign women as employees of embassies, the families of foreign teams or other foreign women living in Tehran are permitted to attend the men’s volleyball competitions,” the head of Iran’s Volleyball Federation, Mahmoud Afshardoust, told the IRNA news agency.
Foreign women visiting Iran must, by law, comply with the Islamic dress code in public, wearing loose-fitting clothes and covering the hair.
We can only hope that Iranian women will soon be allowed to support and cheer for their national teams in person!
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(image: FIVB)