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The president of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association , the world’s largest global soccer organization, issued a message of condolence on Monday following the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi.
Among the many human rights violations attributable to Raisi’s time in office was the repression of woman soccer fans, for decades banned from attending soccer games but allowed more recently to attend in small numbers, isolated in stadiums from the men. The issue had been a significant point of contention with FIFA, which maximizes its“We had met last year in New York and discussed how to promote football in IR Iran,” Infantino recalled.
El mandatario de Irán, Ebrahim Raisi se reúne con con el presidente de la FIFA, Gianni Infantino, al margen de la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas en Nueva York.on the meeting at the time – which took place in New York during the United Nations’ General Assembly annual debate – Infantino met with Raisi and his entourage in an attempt to convince Tehran to stop oppressing women soccer fans.
FIFA noted that Iran, under Raisi’s “moderate” predecessor Hassan Rouhani, had allowed women into Tehran’s Azadi stadium in limited numbers to watch a soccer match, “the first time in 40 years” such an event had occurred. Iran had issued similar small-scale permissions for women to attend soccer games, but access to the sport remains extremely limited for women.
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