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20-Year-Old Girl Breaks Iran Clean Sheet Record

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Zahra Khajavi, a goalkeeper playing for a women’s football club in Iran’s Kurdistan Province, has broken the country’s clean sheet record after not conceding a goal for 950 minutes.
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Iranian Women Team Claim World Alysh Title

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Iranian women Alysh wrestlers have clinched the 2019 World Alysh Championships title in Kyrgyzstan.
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Charity Worker Helps Wishes of 453 Cancer Kids Come True

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An Iranian charity worker has dedicated her life to children with cancer to change the colour of their world.
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Iranian Girl Converts Minibus into Lovely Mobile Bookstore

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A young Iranian lady has come up with the idea of converting a minibus into a book shop, but she is not old enough yet to drive her “mobile” bookstore.
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Iranian Couple Hold Exhibition to Show Women Woes, Achievements

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An Iranian artist couple have run an exhibition called "Leili and Shirin" to put on show in two different ways some works about the society’s view of the women.
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Iranian Girl Wins Reputation by Walking a Thin Line

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Reyhaneh Armaghani is an Iranian girl whose unusual career and field of sport, highlining, has won her some reputation. She walks on a thin belt, practices slack line and unicycle, and works at heights.
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US Sanctions Not to Stop Iranian Women’s Progress: VP

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Iran’s Vice President for Women and Family Affairs Masoumeh Ebtekar says the Iranian women will not stop moving forward despite the crippling sanctions imposed by the United States.
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Iranian Women’s Growth Can Be Model for All: VP

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Iranian Vice President for Women and Family Affairs has highlighted legal made in Iran to improve the status’ of women in the country after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
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‘Iran Must Reinforce Its Laws on Violence against Women’

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A lawyer and women’s rights activist has weighed on violence against women in the Islamic Republic of Iran and the country’s laws and regulations to protect women.
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Iran’s First Woman Airport Chief Talks of Her Job’s Ups & Downs

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It’s been a few months that an Iranian woman named Parvaneh Sohrabi has been appointed as the first female airport manager in Iran and in the Middle East.
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Female Indian Journalists Meet with Iran FM

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A host of female Indian authors and journalists have met Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.
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Iranian Female Painter Wins Award at Harvard Art Gala

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Iranian surrealist painter and senior research associate at Harvard University, Sara Ashrafi, has won the first prize at an annual gala held by the Massachusetts General Hospital for the best painting about the Alzheimer’s disease.
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Two Iranian Girls Training to Become Mechanics

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Two Iranian girls with an interest in repairing vehicles are now learning how to become mechanics in defiance of the fact that the occupation is mostly male-dominated.
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‘Diplomatic Ladies’ Hold Food, Handicrafts Festival in Tehran

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A festival of food and handicrafts was held in Tehran on Thursday by the Diplomatic Spouses' Association of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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Afghan Woman Runs Largest Hospital Clothing Workshop in Iran

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Zeinab Shaban, a thirty-four-year-old Afghan woman who is living in Iran, has launched a successful business and manufactures hospital clothing to help Afghan and Iranian staff.
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Flight Captained by Two Women for First Time in Iran

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For the first time in Iran, two women pilots have captained a flight, which took over 160 passengers from Tehran to Mashhad and brought almost the same number of people back to Tehran.
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Law that Let Iranian Women Pass Nationality to Children Takes Effect

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Iran’s Ministry of Interior says the law that allows Iranian women with non-Iranian husbands to pass their own nationality to their children has officially come into force.
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Iran Celebrates Women’s First Free Stadium Attendance with 14 Goals

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Iran’s national football team pulled off a landslide victory over Cambodia, scoring seven in either half to send them well clear at the top of Group C, in a day when Iranian women were allowed to freely attend the stadium for the first time in 40 years.
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Int’l Paralympic Committee Praises Iranian Shooter as ‘Pistol Queen’

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A few days before the start of the World Paralympic Championships in Sydney, the website of the International Paralympic Committee chose an interesting nickname for the Iranian shooter Sareh Javanmardi, calling her “The Pistol Queen”.
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Nearly 19% of State Managerial Posts Run by Women: Iran VP

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Iran’s vice president for women and family affairs says roughly 19 percent of managerial posts at government institutions in the country are run by women, and the figure is expected to grow.
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Iran Vice President: Women’s Entry into Stadiums A Step Forward

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Vice President of Iran for Women and Family Affairs has lauded the admission of women to football stadiums as an important step forward for the protection of women’s rights.
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Iran Ratifies Law to Let Mothers Pass Nationality to Children

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Iran’s legislation watchdog, the Guardian Council, has finally approved a law that allows children with an Iranian mother and a non-Iranian father to obtain the country’s citizenship.
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Iranian Women to Be Allowed into Stadiums

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Women in Iran have been finally allowed entry into football stadiums, according to the Azadi Sports Complex of Tehran.
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Young Girls Embellish Zahedan by Painting Masterpieces on Walls

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A group of Iranian girls from the southeastern city of Zahedan are decorating their underdeveloped city by drawing the world’s most famous works of art on the walls of the streets.
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Iran Says Preparing Conditions for Women to Go to Stadiums

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Iranian Government Spokesman Ali Rabiei says women are now allowed to go to stadiums to watch all international football matches, and conditions are being prepared for club matches as well.
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