Who is not intent to see Iranian female athlete's success?

Pars Today – Since the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979, women have achieved a special status in this country an instance of which is the success of the Iranian women in different international arenas including sports competitions.

For example, during the Asian games in Hangzhou, China, on September 23- October 8, 2023, Iranian female athletes attained many honours, so that, of the total 54 medals for Iran in these competitions, 16 medals- i.e. nearly one thirds of the medals were bagged by women.

Some of the Iranian female athletes participated in these competitions for the first time and some of them achieved medals for the first time in a sports field for women. Faranak Partow Azar, for instance, garnered the first medal of Iranian women's cycling in Asia and Taraneh Ahmadi who bagged silver medal as the best medal of Iranian women in skating.

To this list of successes, one must also add the name of Elaheh Razzaqi who promoted the Iranian women's weightlifting record.

But, concurrent with these successes in the athletic community, a movie was viraled illegally on social media which had not got the license of screening at the time of production. The movie narrates the story of an Iranian woman who claims to break the record of swimming, but, the Iranian officials refrain from registering her records because of her improper costume.

Astonishingly, the scale of Iranian women's success in the global sports contests, under the flag of the Islamic Republic, does not draw the attention of the filmmakers who claim to support women's rights, but, a contradictory account with many ambiguities provides the fodder to make a movie to reflect the situation of the Iranian women's sports for the world people in the international festivals?

Why don't the producers and actors of this movie, who claim to have chosen a true account of women's sports for their movie, choose the silver medal of Zahra Baqeri in kurash (a kind of folk wrestling practiced in Central Asia) or the silver medal of Taraneh Ahmadi in skating to make a film on the success of the Iranian women in sports?

The Islamic Republic of Iran is not opposed to women's kurash, weightlifting and skating. Even, women's swimming is held inside the country, but, in the global arena due to the presence of men and international opposition with the religious dressing code of the Iranian women, this is not permitted to them.

Therefore, who can see the success of the Iranian women with such attitudes: Those who pave the way for bagging of medals in various sports with regards to all religious principles necessary for a Muslim woman and install the billboards of their medals in the streets, or the ones who just pick an ambiguous event and ignore all medals and championships of women in sports? Honestly, which one is the enemy of the Iranian women?

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