Iranian women have tickets but cannot watch volleyball match in Tehran

The Iranian Volleyball Federation had provided special accreditation to 200 handpicked women to watch a volleyball match between Iran and the United States in Tehran but, the women were not permitted to enter the stadium. It was a Volleyball World League match.
This has been reported in zeenews.india.com dated 20 June 2015.

The tickets had been reserved for "family members of players, supporters of the visiting team and executive officials" but, the accreditations had not been validated by security services at the arena. As a result, the women could not enter.
Iran had introduced rules after the 1979 revolution prohibiting women from gaining access to stadiums.. The official reason was to protect them from obscene behavior of the male fans. But, President Hassan Rouhani's government has been trying to relax the rules in spite of opposition from religious conservatives.
Quite recently, some women were allowed to watch a male basketball match in Tehran – they had to sit in a cordoned-off section of a venue.
Incidentally, Iran won the match 3 sets to 1 and, there are reports that there were some women present inside the arena, including female referees.
The international volleyball federation FIVB, had in November last, indicated that it would not allow Iran to host international events so long as women are banned from attending games. This announcement was a fallout of the jailing of British-Iranian Goncheh Ghavami – she had been arrested after she tried to attend a volleyball match last year.
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