Women`s Boxing Banned In Iran`s Khuzestan Province
(Payvand Iran News)

Khuzestan has become Iran`s first province to officially ban women`s boxing. `;Any activity in women`s boxing is prohibited in the province,`; the head of Khuzestan`s boxing board, Hamid Zanganehmanesh, said on May 31, according to the semiofficial ISNA news agency. Referring to a recent letter from the president of the Iranian boxing federation, Zanganehmanesh said all women`s boxing activities were prohibited in Khuzestan, including coaching, training, and theory classes.