Iran Sports Boss Quits After Women Compete Unveiled: State Media
VOA - The head of Iran's athletics federation resigned Sunday over a sporting event featuring women without the mandatory headscarf,…
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Iran’s female athletes raise voices over entrenched discrimination
Al-Monitor - As the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris approach, Iran’s female athletes are speaking out publicly about the inequities in their…
Blinding as a Weapon (33): A Would-Be Football Coach who Lost his Eye
Iranwire - As IranWire has reported, hundreds of Iranians have sustained severe eye injuries after being hit by pellets, tear gas…
Iranian Football Federation Thwarts Bid to Allow Women in Stadium
Iranwire - Iran’s Premier League football club Malavan Bandar Anzali FC says the national football federation has rejected its request…
Iran’s Football Federation Fined $300,000 over Fraud
Iranwire - The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has fined Iran’s football federation $300,000 over fraudulent practices in the issuance of…
Ex-Federation Boss: I Suffered Discrimination Because of My Ethnicity
Iranwire - Hossein Souri, head of Iran’s National Boxing Federation, said in November 2022 he was refusing to return to…
No more Schooling for Hijab Rule Violators in Iran
Iranwire - Iran’s ministries of education and science have warned that they will no longer provide educational services to students…
Athletes Turned Criminals: A Calendar Of Repression Against Iranian Sports
Iranwire - Razieh Janbaz, the first Iranian woman to play with a foreign handball team, has announced that she has…
Legendary Iranian Football Player Daei To Miss FIFA Ceremony Due To Travel Ban
Iranwire - Ali Daei, a former Iranian national team captain and the country’s record international goalscorer, will not be able…
Report: Iranian Olympic Skier Flees to Germany
VOA - Iranian Olympic skier Atefeh Ahmadi has quit her home country and applied for asylum in Germany, a Persian-language…