[9][10] Hashemi also made an effort to include some controversial aspect in the opening ceremony for each games, in the hope of normalizing it.

In 1996, for example, the opening ceremony included cycling, which women were not allowed to do in public at the time.

[11] The debut games in 1993 included para table tennis for disabled sportswomen.

[11] That year, however, FIFA did make equipment donations in recognition of the attention the games were bringing to futsal.

[11] In 2018, Masoud Soltanifar, the Iranian Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs, announced the country would revive the event, although this did not come to fruition.