Pink Card: Soccer and the Fight for Women’s Rights in Iran

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🗓️ 8 December 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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When the United States needed to beat Iran to make the knockout stage of this World Cup, the story of the ongoing protests in Iran captured the attention of American media. How thousands of protesters had been arrested and hundreds had been killed while fighting for the basic rights of women. How players on the Iranian national team were being threatened for being sympathetic to that cause. And how the country’s tangled history with America now seeped into the soccer being played. But then America won…Iran was sent home… and it felt like an even bigger story — the story of how specifically important soccer has been to this movement, a movement spanning generations of women in Iran — was lost. So today, we ask Shima Oliaee, host of the upcoming 30 for 30 podcast series, PINK CARD, to tell us about that story…and why it resonates right now, more than ever. You can listen to Pink Card here: https://30for30podcasts.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Shima Oliai, you just made this new 30 for 30 podcast series titled Hink Card, a truly
0:06.7	multi generational story about women and soccer in Iran.
0:11.2	But before we dive into that, I think it might be helpful for you to just lay out for
0:15.0	our listeners here.
0:16.9	What's been happening in Iran recently?
0:19.7	On September 16th of this year, a young woman, she's visiting the Capitol.
0:25.4	She normally lives in a village and two inches of her hair was showing from outside of her
0:31.1	hijab.
0:32.3	This is Massa Zina Amini.
0:42.4	The morality police picked her up and they took her to a center to get reeducated in how
0:49.1	to dress appropriately and when her family came down to the Capitol, they delivered her
0:56.6	body to the parents and she had, she was no longer living.
1:06.5	They had basically bludgeoned her body.
1:08.2	They said that she had died of a heart attack or something and basically they had murdered
1:13.3	her.
1:17.4	And I think what was expected is that Iranian people on Mass would not rise up for an anonymous
1:26.9	girl that was from a small village.
1:29.8	That wouldn't be the uniting force for the whole country and they were very wrong.
1:42.6	The sound of that mother grieving over her daughter, it ruins you.
1:52.1	It just devastates you.
2:08.4	And then on, everyone was in the streets.
2:14.0	Now that the deadly protests in Iran tonight spreading out to some 80 Iranian cities and
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