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Paris. Fifa on Friday faced calls to sanction Iran and even throw its team out of the 2022 World Cup finals over the Islamic republic’s renewed failure to allow women to attend an international football match. Iranian news agencies this week confirmed that 2,000 women who had bought tickets for Tuesday’s World Cup qualifier against Lebanon in the northeastern city of Mashhad could not enter the stadium. Activists based outside Iran accused the authorities of using pepper spray at close range to disperse women who then protested the ban outside the venue. The United for Navid group of exiled Ir…