They waved flags. They painted their faces with stripes of green, white and red. They celebrated with blowhorns.
For the first time in four decades, women were allowed to pack into Tehran’s Azadi stadium on Thursday to cheer along with male fans as Iran’s national soccer team played a World Cup qualifier against Cambodia.
“It is truly exciting! Enjoying one of my basic rights for the first time,” Zahra Ahooei, 30, told ABC News as she made her way to the stadium, in between cheerfully sending bursts of air into her horn painted the colors of the Iranian flag. She wore the white team jersey and a matching hat that her husband had given her as a gift.
In full: https://abcnews.go.com/International/women-attend-soccer-match-iran-decades/story?id=66217498
