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Al-Arabia – Iranian fans at the national team’s first match at the World Cup unfurled a banner protesting Iran’s ban on women attending soccer matches back home.

HRW —Travel to Russia, even with lost luggage and long layovers, couldn’t dampen the excitement of my first World Cup.

RFL/RE – Iran has scored a dramatic victory over Morocco at the World Cup in Russia, spurring thousands of fans back home to pour onto the streets to celebrate the second-ever victory for the country in soccer’s centerpiece event.

PayvandNews – Head coach of the Iran men’s national football team Carlos Queiroz has announced the names on the final roster of the squad for the forthcoming fixtures at the 2018 Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup in Russia.

RFL/RE – As Iran’s national soccer team finalizes its squad and tactics for the upcoming World Cup in Russia, President Hassan Rohani is offering his thoughts on how Ramadan, chaste women athletes, and faith among members of Team Melli, as it’s known, can work in concert to make the Islamic republic victorious.

PayvandNews – On Saturday, May 19th, actress Vida Ghaffari (The Mindy Project, Jimmy Kimmel Live) and many celebrities and luminaries in the martial arts world were inducted into the prestigious USA Martial Arts Hall of Fame at their gala at the Doubletree Hilton in Los Angeles. Ghaffari was bestowed with the Trailblazer Award. She is the first person of Iranian descent to …

RFL/RE – Iranian President Hassan Rohani has called for a decades-long stadium ban for women to be lifted, according to his office and media reports.

PayvandNews – The Iran women’s national futsal team has vigorously ended its campaign at the 2018 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Women’s Futsal Championship, and defended its title as the champion of the continental tournament.

Iran-HRM – Two young women were arrested on Friday, April 27, 2018, in Isfahan, central Iran for attempting to enter the Naghsh-e Jahan Stadium to watch the match between their favorite football teams. Iranian authorities on the same day detained two other young women and a teen girl for trying to attend a football match in Tehran’s gigantic Azadi Stadium, the …

ESPN – It is not often that free-scoring forwards have to step out of the shadow of miserly defenders to take the spotlight, but that is what Alireza Jahanbakhsh will be doing this June.