Modern Women Iran
Iranian women watch a training session of Iran's national football team from behind a fence as females were not allowed to enter the stadium at Tehran's Azadi (Freedom) sport complex, 22 May 2006. Iran's supreme leader has vetoed an order by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to end a 26-year-old ban on allowing women in stadiums for major sporting events, the government said earlier this month. Last month Ahmadinejad ordered an end to a decades-old ban on women entering stadiums for major sporting events, including football matches. Although this was hailed by women's rights activists, the directive did not go down well among religious right-wingers eager to maintain the male-female segregation ushered in by Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution.PHOTO:ALFRED..........