Iran's women revolting

When he visited Iran a couple of years ago, the German philosopher Jurgen Habermas said the next Iranian revolution would be a women's revolution - and we are now seeing signs of that, writes Hossein Derakhshan.

While young men have become ever more apathetic, partly because of the high rate of unemployment, young women have a vital social and political cause to fight for.

The battle is for equal gender rights and opportunities, from all-encompassing issues to smaller ones such as the right to watch matches in a football stadium.

There are no laws banning women from the football stadiums, but a ban is effectively enforced - maybe because it has not been challenged by enough women over the past two decades. Now some are trying to change all that.

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