DUBAI – Iranian police arrested people including football players who participated in a drinking party in Tehran on New Year’s Eve. All but one of them were later released. Alcohol is banned in Iran. Team members and former members of a prominent Tehran soccer club were arrested.
The national uprising that started in Iran following the death of a Kurdish woman who was arrested for violating the hijab law last September in the custody of the religious police has not yet ended.
English Summary: Football players who participated in liquor party in Iran under arrest
