With fake beards and viral Instagram videos, female football fans are making history in Iran

They are standing up to a 37-year-old ban forbidding women from attending sports events.
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With fake beards and viral Instagram videos, female football fans are making history in Iran
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Women in Iran are forbidden, among other things, from attending sports events. But today, female fans are defying the ban by posting viral videos of themselves watching live games disguised as men. And now, with Iran's team competing in the World Cup, women were allowed inside a stadium for the first time in 37 years.

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