Defending champions Iran defeated Iraq 5-3 on Tuesday to win Group C in a match that proved the first real test of the holders’ credentials. Both Iran and Iraq had already qualified for the quarter-final ahead of the match at University of Taipei Gymnasium but, nevertheless, it was to be a hard-fought and intriguing contest […]

TEHRAN – John Green from Great Britain claimed the title of the Eight-ball Foreign Diplomats’ Cup in Tehran on Sunday. The event brought together diplomats from Armenian, British, Bulgarian, Egyptian, German, Greek, Indian and Tajik embassies and missions at the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) Cultural Institute in the Iranian capital city of Tehran. The diplomats’ […]

Iran national football team will face African powerhouse Algeria on March 27 in the Austrian capital of Vienna, an Iran Football Federation’s official said. The friendly match will be held as part of Team Melli’s preparation for the 2018 World Cup. Some media reports had suggested that the match is scheduled to take place in […]

TEHRAN – Hamid Ali Samimi was elected as new President of Islamic Republic of Iran Sports Federation for the Disabled on Monday. Iran’s Deputy Sports Minister Mohammad Reza Davarzani and Shahrokh Shahnazi, the National Olympic Committee Secretary General, attended the elections. He will serve for four years as President after securing 24 out of 43 […]

TEHRAN – Iranian taekwondo athlete Kimia Alizadeh says she will participate at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics to win a gold medal. Alizadeh won a bronze medal at the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. This made her the first Iranian woman to win a medal at the Olympic Games. “Now, I’m training in the camp far from […]

Reigning champions England launched their Six Nations title defence with a 46-15 win away to Italy in Rome on Sunday to cap an exciting first weekend of the Championship. Wales stopped Scotland’s recent revival in its tracks with a dominating 34-7 win in Cardiff on Saturday, a day when there was drama on and off […]

Amir Moradi of Iran took a gold medal in the men’s 1500 meters at the Asian Indoor Athletics Championships on Saturday. He won the gold medal with a time of 3:53.78. The silver medal went to Qatari athlete Yaser Saleem Bagharab who clocked 3:53.92 and Iran’s Ali Fahimi won the bronze with 3:54.00. Iran had […]

Macedonian central midfielder Bojan Najdenov has been linked with a move to Iranian football club Esteghlal. The 26-year-old has traveled to Tehran to undergo a medical examination. Free agent Najdenov most recently played at the Egyptian club Smouha Sporting Club. Cameroonian strikers Christian Bekamenga, Yves Ekwalla Herman, Portuguese forward Yazalde Gomes Pinto, Nigerian Salisu Abdullahi […]

TEHRAN – Members of the Iranian Veteran Sports Journalists Association have asked Asian Football Confederation (AFC) officials to stay neutral between Iranian and Saudi Arabian clubs. The Iranian journalists in a letter asked Dato’ Windsor John, the AFC General Secretary, to consider spirit of Fair Play. “We are writing to express our disbelief with the […]

TEHRAN – Iran’s Football Federation has asked the AFC to respect Iranian football clubs’ freedom of choice in selecting their host venues when they meet Saudi teams. In a letter to the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Iran has officially asked the Asian body to respect the rights of the Iranian teams when it comes to […]