Last but not least: Convicted of playing football by cell phone
Everyone does it: young children, old men, women in their forties. They all play soccer. In Iran, this is not a given. As *20 Minuten* reported on Monday, men and women played against each other in Iran for the first time since the 1979 revolution. But this historic match did not come without consequences.
They all do it: young children, old men, women in their forties. They all play football. Not a matter of course in Iran. As 20 Minuten reported on Monday, men and women played against each other in Persia for the first time since the 1979 revolution. But the historic encounter was not without consequences. After the game, three officials were suspended because, according to the strict interpretation of Islam in Iran, men and women who are not related are not allowed to have physical contact. According to a newspaper report, the match between the women's team and the youth team of the Esteghlal club took place on January 22 in Tehran. The newspaper Watan-e-Emrus reported that the youth team won 7:0. Videos taken with cell phones were cited as evidence against those responsible, who had initially denied that the game had taken place at all. In 2006, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad surprised his compatriots by announcing that women would be allowed to watch men play football in the stadium. He explained that the presence of women would have a positive influence on the behavior of the fans. However, the spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei rejected the proposal. Why aren't cell phones with a camera function simply banned?
