“If the religious leaders have influence, they will not permit girls and boys to wrestle together, as recently happened in Shiraz.”

—  Ruhollah Khomeini

Denouncing the situation that sex segregation was not being imposed by the government. Speech number sixteen, Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, World Service, October 26, 1964 http://www.irib.ir/worldservice/imam/speech/,
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