Attack on women behind the doors of Mashhad Stadium with pepper spray; "We were carrying out orders from Tehran"

Without mentioning the women's names, he only said that the "concerns" related to outside the stadium "are being followed up and the results of the follow-up will be made known to the public."

Mojtaba Tavangar, a member of parliament, also wrote on Twitter: "Girls bought tickets to watch football, but their share was pepper spray! These measures have no other result than cost-cutting at home and abroad. I will register a question to the Minister of Sports at the earliest opportunity."

Jalal Rashidi Kochi, another MP, also blamed the Ministry of Sports and threatened that "on Sunday, April 4, I will raise my question about the bitter events at Mashhad Stadium."

Fatemeh Rahmani, a representative from Mashhad, has also called violence against women "marginal" and blamed the Ministry of Sports.

But while these three representatives have held the Ministry of Sports responsible for not allowing women into the stadium and for treating them violently, Ali Motahari, a former member of parliament, wrote in a tweet: "It is a disgrace for the Islamic Republic that they first sell tickets to the Iran-Lebanon match in Mashhad to women, and then prevent them from entering and treat some with pepper spray. Instead of blaming the Taliban for their treatment of women, we imitate their behavior."

The claim by current members of parliament about blaming the Ministry of Sports has been made in a situation where cyberspace users have written in their reactions to this incident that these clashes are beyond the will of the Ministry of Sports.

Cyberspace users have also criticized the Ministry of Sports' decision to play the game in a religious city like Mashhad, but have written that this incident will thwart the Islamic Republic's "plan" to deceive FIFA into allowing women to freely enter stadiums to watch football.

The Iranian Football Federation has pledged to FIFA that women have the same right as men to purchase tickets and enter the stadium, according to FIFA rules, but only a limited number of women have been selectively allowed to enter the stadiums.

After last night's game, many users have called on FIFA to stop appeasing the Iranian Football Federation and ban Iranian football from international matches due to the Islamic Republic's "misogynistic structure."

Attorney Ali Mojtahedzadeh also tweeted that "pepper spray is considered a 'cold weapon', and according to the law on the use of weapons by armed forces officers, its use is solely dependent on the fulfillment of specific conditions and situations."

He adds: "Which of these circumstances would include a gathering of women who had already purchased tickets to enter the stadium and were pepper sprayed in their faces? Does NAJA have a documented explanation for taking this action?"

The use of pepper spray against women has even been met with opposition from Hezbollah users on social media.

Vahid Ashtari, a user known as "Justice Seeker", posted a video of women in veils kicking the stadium door in protest after male officers used pepper spray, writing: "The most pro-Hezbollah Twitter users who curse faster than the subversives from yesterday, and the veiled people in this video who have been pepper sprayed and are kicking the stadium door, have a strange symbolic aspect. The factions closest to the government are expressing their opposition to official policies by kicking."