Iranian veteran soccer player and a world record holder Ali Daei has been chosen to play for Mexico peace match, along with luminaries like Brazilian Ronaldinho and Spanish Carles Puyol. Ali Daei has been invited to play for a friendly game in aid of striving for world peace in Mexico and Colombia in March, 2018. Honored […]

Austrian Marcel Hirscher was in pole position to claim a second Olympic gold of the Pyeongchang Games after scorching the first leg of the men’s giant slalom on Sunday. Hirscher, who finally won an individual gold in the alpine combined on Tuesday after dominating the World Cup for the last six years, clocked 1min 08.27sec […]

TEHRAN – Former Iran champions Pas were relegated to the country’s third tier league. The former giants were sent to the third division after suffering a 2-0 defeat to Shahrdari Bam football team on Saturday. Pas are one of the oldest Iranian football clubs founded in 1963. Pad along with Esteghlal are only two Iranian […]

TEHRAN – Nottingham Forest coach Aitor Karanka says Iranian international midfielder Ashkan Dejagah has taken a knock to his knee in the training and they are waiting to find out how serious it is. The 31-year-old is expected to be missing for at least a month – and it may be for longer than that. […]

Mehdi Mohammadi took Iran’s first gold medal at 7th edition of Para Asian Track Championships in Malaysia on Friday. Iran has dispatched three cyclists including Mehdai Mohammadi, Alreza Ghasemi, and Bahram Soleimani to the competition, according to the Islamic Republic of Iran National Paralympics Committee (IRINPC). Mehdi Mohammadi grabbed the gold medal at the individual stage, […]

Iran defeated Lebanon 29-19 at the 2nd edition of the AHF West Asian Women’s Handball Championship on Friday. The Iranian team had already humiliated Iraq 43-8 in the first day of the competition. The Iranian girls are going to face Qatar on Sunday. The competition began in Jordan’s Amman on Thursday and will be underway until February […]

Tractor Sazi striker Farzad Hatami will miss the upcoming match against Al Gharafa of Qatar due to injury. Tractor Sazi football team will play in Doha’s Thani bin Jassim Stadium against Al Gharafa on Monday. The striker sustained an injury in the match against Saudi Arabia’s Al Ahli in Matchday One of the AFC Champions […]

TEHRAN – Nigerian media reports suggest that Qatari and Saudi Arabian football clubs have shown interest in signing Persepolis’s striker Godwin Mensha. Mensha scored Persepolis’s first goal against Nasaf of Uzbekistan in Group C of the AFC Champions League on Tuesday, where they won the match 3-0. The 28-year-old striker, who joined Persepolis in May […]

Iranian wrestler Alireza Karimi has been handed a six months ban for deliberately losing a bout to avoid facing an opponent from Zionist regime. United World Wrestling (UWW) has confirmed the sanction and also handed a two year penalty to his coach Hamidreza Jamshidi. An investigation was launched in December after it was alleged that Karimi […]

The case on Alireza Karimi, the Iranian wrestler who intentionally lost a match at the U23 World Championship in Poland to avoid facing off an Israeli rival, is about to be wrapped up, with the final verdict likely to bring Iran a one-year suspension. It appears that last week, the insistence of the International Olympic […]