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AFC puts Iran on the spot on women’s rights

AFC puts Iran on the spot on women’s rights

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May 22, 2012
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(Source: BBC)

By James M. Dorsey

Iranian women soccer fans have set their hopes on the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) to return them to the terraces after having been banned from stadiums for years to prevent them from looking at men’s bodies.

The women expect the AFC’s insistence that Iran adhere to the Asian soccer body’s standards when it hosts this…

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