I would imagine that many volleyball fans in Iran are not too happy with this. Maybe if they rose up en masse and said it was OK for women to also attend the games, the ban would be lifted.
Iran stripped of world championship volleyball tournament after jailing female spectator
Posted 8 minutes agoMon 10 Nov 2014, 12:20pm
Iran says a decision by volleyball's governing body to ban the country from hosting international tournaments as long as women are barred from watching men's games is "unfair".
The international volleyball federation FIVB announced its decision on Sunday, a week after a British-Iranian woman, Ghoncheh Ghavami, was reportedly jailed by a Tehran court for trying to attend a match.
An Iranian judiciary official denied on Monday that Ms Ghavami was sentenced to jail, saying her trial had not yet finished.
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Iran stripped of world championship volleyball tournament after jailing female spectator
Posted 8 minutes agoMon 10 Nov 2014, 12:20pm
Iran says a decision by volleyball's governing body to ban the country from hosting international tournaments as long as women are barred from watching men's games is "unfair".
The international volleyball federation FIVB announced its decision on Sunday, a week after a British-Iranian woman, Ghoncheh Ghavami, was reportedly jailed by a Tehran court for trying to attend a match.
An Iranian judiciary official denied on Monday that Ms Ghavami was sentenced to jail, saying her trial had not yet finished.
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Iran stripped of world championship volleyball tournament after jailing female spectator - ABC News Australian Broadcasting Corporation ?