Iranian volleyball national team

[rug]

1974



2016

[superpatriotman]

1. Welcome to the future

Progress in reverse

[busterbrown]

2. Result of CIA involvement

in overthrowing Shaw in 1953..

Yep the Conservatives took power and blocked any kind of progressive mores in the country till practically this day..

http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB435/

[ABLEZEROSIX]

6. Overthrowing the shah? Perhaps you should read your own links.

The CIA INSTALLED the Shah.

[busterbrown]

9. Yep in a rush.. Of course I meant the

Prime Minister..Good thing there are wise asses like you around to make sure insulting behavior is in style around here.. Thanks..

[Chathamization]

10. The CIA didn't install the Shah. They worked with the Shah to remove Mossadeq (which I believe the

Shah actually had the power to do, per the constitution). The CIA tried to pay off various players to side with the Shah in the power struggle, but my understanding is that it wasn't terribly effective and it was royalist sympathies in the military which actually lead to the Shah coming out on top.

[demmiblue]

3. Iranian women aren't even allowed to watch live (stadium) men's volleyball:

The Rio Olympics are underway and sports fans around the world are waking up early, staying up late, gathering around TV sets or furtively streaming the competitions online from work computers. Others are fortunate to witness records broken and precedents set live from the stands and bleachers — perhaps none so noticeably as Darya Safai, an Iranian woman protesting Iran’s ban on women watching volleyball matches. In my home country of Iran, women have bravely paved their paths in politics, science and the arts — yet they are still striving for the right to be part of key public spaces: stadiums (volleyball and soccer, among others.)

In May, a 15-year-old Iranian girl defied the rules and dressed up as a boy to gain entrance into Azadi (“Freedom”) Stadium in Tehran for the Finale of Iran’s Premier League soccer season — she was later threatened with arrest and even death. In July, women in Iran were promised they could buy tickets and attend the International Volleyball Federation’s World League Matches, but as soon as the online sale commenced, a “sold out” alert appeared.

The International Olympic Committee under President Thomas Bach has made “gender equality” one of its central pillars mandating access to sport for all as both players and spectators. At the Rio Olympics, Iranian women were able to watch their national men’s team — which for many only put a spotlight on the ban at home in Iran.

A campaign by Iranian women challenges the International Volleyball Federation, also known as the FIVB, which has so far tolerated stadiums where the crowded rows of spectators exclude half the population. It is crucial that the Federation ensures Iranian women do not have to go to great lengths and risk their safety to simply watch.

Read more: http://nytlive.nytimes.com/womenintheworld/2016/08/17/iranian-women-should-not-face-arrest-and-threats-for-watching-volleyball/

[msongs]

4. are their men's teams dressed like that? nt

[rug]

5. But of course

not.

[Avalux]

7. I have a woman friend who grew up in Iran.

She left there long ago and so did her family (they live in Canada).

Her childhood was really no different than mine and she has watched fundamentalism overtake secularism. She'll never go back.

She tells me we should never take our rights for granted because it can happen here too.

[smirkymonkey]

11. I had an Iranian female professor in graduate school who said

the same thing. She always dreaded going back home because she had to cover up completely. She hated it.

[Wednesdays]

8. Were things really that much better back then?

After all, there was the Shah and so on.