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Iranian TV doesn’t broadcast women’s sports, so fans create their own coverage

Published by Ershad Alijani

In Iran, TV channels – which are all state-run – do not broadcast most women’s sports competitions due to restrictions on showing women’s bodies. But thanks to social media, Iranian women are covering women’s sports themselves.

Iranian women join forces with imams after series of rapes

Published by Ershad Alijani

In an unprecedented move, conservative Iranian women joined forces with women’s rights activists and even local religious leaders to hold demonstrations after a local imam alleged

‘I cried when I saw the pitch,’ say Iranian women finally allowed in stadium

Published by Ershad Alijani

Although Iran just missed out on qualifying for the World Cup’s final 16, its fans have a lot to be cheerful about. Not only did ‘Team Melli’, the country’s national team,