In a Tehran park, a group of young women brave sneering men and shocked looks as they perform flips, mid-air somersaults and bound from pillar to pillar in a surprising sight in a conservative Islamic country. The group has discovered parkour, the fast-moving sport blending acrobatics and gymnastics that has become their outlet for evading social ...

[caption id="attachment_32349" align="alignright" width="240"] A parkour athlete from Lahijan doing a flip on the beach.[/caption] First it was martial arts. Now Iranian women are combating their bullying street culture by taking up parkour On any given Friday, groups ofyoung women across Iran can be seen jumping from rooftops, scaling the graffitied ...