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These are images that the country has not seen for more than 40 years: In Iran, women are again allowed to attend men's football league games.
Around 500 female fans came to Azadi Stadium in Tehran on Wednesday to watch the match between Persepolis FC and Sanat Naft FC.
Nazanin, football fan:
“It's great that we women can go to the Azadi Stadium.
What is the difference between us and men?
We should come here and be allowed to experience that.
We teenagers should also be allowed to come and see football up close because we are very interested in football and sports.”
Farideh Paykar, Soccer Fan:
»Everyone has been with me and supported my passion and excitement.
Everyone was happy that I could go to the stadium.«
A similar number of women attended the game between Persepolis and Mes Kerman last Thursday, the first time since the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Since then, women have been denied access to the football stadium.
The country's arch-conservative clergy believe that women have no place in stadiums with fanatical male fans and their vulgar slogans.
Under pressure from the world football association Fifa, a limited number of women have been allowed into the stadium for at least the national team's World Cup qualifiers in the past two years.
So now also the return of women to league games, for many it was a first because of their age alone.
Mahja, football fan:
»I've never been to the stadium before.
It's the first time, so today is 100 percent extra exciting and passionate.
I heard from my brother and my father that the atmosphere in the stadium is very good.«
The women entered the stadium through a separate entrance and sat in their own block.
The mood there was exuberant – also because Persepolis, the country's most popular club, won 2-0.
However, it is not yet clear how things will continue for female soccer fans in Iran.
The other clubs still do not allow women, only Persepolis had a probationary entry.
Whether it stays that way and whether other clubs are allowed to open their stadiums to women should only be decided afterwards.