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Watching the World Cup in Tehran

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We lefts the stadium with no loss, no victory, but plenty of indignation. Thousands of us walked out onto the street through a long dark tunnel, lost in the all-consuming blow of horns and chants of Iraa-a-a-n. The trumpet of God seemed to be calling out the Day of Judgment: Iran gave its best World Cup performance in recent history, and women were allowed inside Iran's largest stadium for the first time in decades.@Pedestrian writes about women and Iran's World Cup performance for Popula. Dispatches from the World Cup finals in Nairobi and Gaza, Belgrade and Tel Aviv, Montpelier and Paris, Berlin, New York City, Cleveland and Maine, California, and Tehran and Bombay.

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