Iran's prosecutor general said today that women would not be allowed to watch live football matches inside stadiums again, because seeing the players will 'lead to sin'.
Prosecutor Mohammad Jafar Montazeri made the comments shortly after approximately 100 women were allowed into the national stadium to watch Iran take on Bolivia in a friendly in Tehran - an extremely rare step in the Islamic Republic.
'I object to the presence of women in Azadi Stadium yesterday. We are a Muslim state, we are Muslims,' Montazeri said, according to the conservative Mehr news agency.
'We will deal with any official who wants to allow women inside stadiums under any pretext,' he added.
'When a woman goes to a stadium and is faced with half-naked men in sports clothes and sees them it will lead to sin.' [Daily Mail] Read more
