FIFA on Friday faced calls to sanction Iran and even throw its team out of the 2022 World Cup finals over the Islamic republic’s renewed failure to allow women to attend an international football match. Iranian news agencies this week confirmed that 2,000 women who had bought tickets for Tuesday’s World Cup qualifier against Lebanon in the northeastern city of Mashhad could not enter the stadium.
Activists based outside Iran accused the authorities of using pepper spray at close range to disperse women who then protested the ban outside the venue.
The United for Navid group of exiled Iranian athletes and activists, set up after the execution of wrestling champion Navid Afkari in September 2020, said Iran should be suspended from international football until it changes its stance.
“We formally request that FIFA immediately suspend Iran and prohibit its participation in the World Cup 2022 as long as the Football Federation of Iran continues to violate the Olympic Charter and FIFA regulations,” it said in a letter to FIFA’s deputy secretary general Mattias Grafstrom.
Didn't they allowed womans in the match against Cambodia?
Tyler Sanders
KINO
Jack Martinez
That's not the same you nigger. I'm not saying FIFA should take action, but I understand why FIFA would care about things at a match related to their organization.
Michael Stewart
fuck ukraine fuck usa fuck uk fuck western decivilization
Joshua Brown
oh so youre even uglier my condolences
Noah Gonzalez
t. resident war criminal
Juan Anderson
You're not wrong.
Christopher Harris
they cant even wear shorts, stop virtue signaling faggot
Parker Edwards
Pedophile
Nicholas Cook
So what now, Yea Forums? If this moves forward and Iran is out, I guess maybe the winner of this round could advance in their place while the lucky loser plays the intercontinental playoff
Are women allowed to attend matches in Qatar? Even if they're allowed to buy tickets, clearly Iranian women were also allowed to buy tickets. This is just Sunnis being haram again.
Jordan Peterson
nice trips
Lucas Bailey
>Automatically through to knock outs due to DNFs Better luck next time faggots