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Outing Iran: Western Sports

By The Daily Dish

Jul 2 2009, 3:27 AM ET

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First baseball and softball, now rugby.

As a bonus, another reader forwards this badass photo of Iranian women practicing archery:



Archery

Photographer Alexandra Boulat captions:

Young Iranian girls doing archery at the Governmental Iranian Organization for Sport Training in Tehran. For these young ladies, sports may be an opportunity to travel outside Iran during international championships.

-- CB

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