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TEHRAN, IRAN - MAY 21: Iranian women hold portraits of Iran's national football players, Ali Karimi (L) and Ferydoon Zandi (R) while watching Iran's national football team exercise at their World Cup 2006 traning camp on May 20, 2006 in Tehran, Iran. Iran's supreme leader has vetoed an order by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to end a 26-year-old ban on allowing women in stadiums for major sporting events (Photo by Majid/Getty Images)

TEHRAN, IRAN - MAY 21: Iranian women hold portraits of Iran's national football players, Ali Karimi (L) and Ferydoon Zandi (R) while watching Iran's national football team exercise at their World Cup 2006 traning camp on May 20, 2006 in Tehran, Iran. Iran's supreme leader has vetoed an order by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to end a 26-year-old ban on allowing women in stadiums for major sporting events (Photo by Majid/Getty Images)