{"id":11772,"date":"2022-11-25T22:18:34","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T16:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=259729"},"modified":"2022-11-25T22:18:34","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T16:48:34","slug":"iranian-fans-protest-against-womens-rights-at-fifa-world-cup-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/iranian-fans-protest-against-womens-rights-at-fifa-world-cup-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian fans protest against women\u2019s rights at FIFA World Cup 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"first-sentence-half\">In order to support the situation there, Iranian supporters attended the crowds on Friday during their team\u2019s match against Wales at the FIFA World Cup 2022.<\/div>\n<div class=\"first-sentence-half\">Iran\u2019s political upheaval also cast a shadow over Iran\u2019s second World Cup match in 2022 due to pro-government supporters intimidating anti-government supporters outside the stadium in Qatar on Friday. Unlike their first game against England, the Iranian players chanted along to their national anthem before their match against Wales as several stadium visitors cried.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Many of the Iranian regime\u2019s followers, who surrounded the female fans with national flags and recorded them on their phones, showed obvious signs of distress.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">An Iran fan holds a shirt with the name of Mahsa Amini. The 22-year-old died days after being arrested and reportedly beaten by Iran\u2019s morality police in September for allegedly not adhering to the nation\u2019s dress code for women. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CuEAtc8BJj\">pic.twitter.com\/CuEAtc8BJj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 B\/R Football (@brfootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brfootball\/status\/1596093387878420480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 25, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>One woman, Maryam, 35, started crying as yelling men blew horns all around her and closely videotaped her face. Maryam, like other Iranian fans, had chosen to withhold her last name due to fears of government retaliation. \u201cWoman Life Freedom\u201d was painted across her face.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Iran fans with a message before their World Cup opener: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/icJ8E250wN\">pic.twitter.com\/icJ8E250wN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 B\/R Football (@brfootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brfootball\/status\/1594672260668874752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 21, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian players chanted along to their national anthem before their match against Wales as several stadium visitors cried.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":34239,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2732,3250],"class_list":["post-11772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-fifa-club-world-cup","tag-qatar-world-cup-2022"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}