TEHRAN – Iran’s Persepolis captain Jalal Hosseini has pinpointed his team’s fighting spirit and huge support as the reasons for their success in the 2017 AFC Champions League ahead of the quarter-final second leg with Saudi Arabia’s Al Ahli on Tuesday. Hosseini, who has more than 100 caps for the Islamic Republic of Iran and […]

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iranian freestyle wrestler Mehdi Eshghi claimed a gold medal at the 2017 United World Wrestling (UWW) Cadet World Championships. Eshghi defeated Kanata Yamaguchi from Japan 6-0 in the final match of the 54kg. Furthermore, Meysam Zare beat Oleksandr Vyshniak from Ukraine 3-1 in the 76kg and won a bronze medal. And in […]

Iran claimed the title of the 16th edition of the West Asian Basketball Association (WABA) U17 Championship on Thursday. The Iranian team overpowered Lebanon 81-40 to claim the title. Earlier in the day, Syria had defeated Jordan in the bronze-medal match. Iran started the campaign with a victory over Iraq and also defeated Syria and […]

Iran will kick off the 2017 FIVB Volleyball Men’s World Grand Champions Cup with a match against Italy. The match has been scheduled for September 12 in Nagoya, Japan. The tournament will bring six teams in Nagoya and Osaka namely, Japan, Iran, the U.S., Brazil, Italy and France together from September 12 to 17. The […]

Chess player Sarasadat Khademalsharieh will be Iran’s flag-bearer in the Ashgabat 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games. The competition will take place between September 17 and 27 in Turkmenistan’s capital. Khademalsharieh will bear Iran’s flag in the opening ceremony at the newly built Olympic Stadium in Ashgabat. All 45 member countries of the Olympic […]

Iran national football team head coach Carlos Queiroz says that flowers are an integrated part of Persians’ daily life. Queiroz’s seven-year tenure with Team Melli has been successful on the field and now the Portuguese says he is happy to live in Tehran in an interview with Diário de Notícias. “Iran is covered by deserts, […]

Iran suffered a heavy 8-0 loss to host China at the 2017 CFA International Women’s Youth Football Tournament opener on Sunday. The Iranian team will face Japan on Tuesday and meet the U.S. on Thursday. The tournament is being held in in Duyun, China from Sept. 10-14. The tournament will mark just the second meeting […]

TEHRAN – Iran’s Amir Mehdizadeh and Saeid Ahmadi claimed two bronze medals at the fifth and final Karate 1 Premier League event of the season in the German cities of Halle and Leipzig on Sunday. Mehdizadeh defeated Vladimir Kalashnikov from Russia 8-0 in the Male Kumite -60 kg event in the bronze medal match and […]

Asian champions Iran climbed to second in the world rankings during August. Asian champions Iran are Movers of the Month for August, replacing Portugal as the world’s second best beach soccer nation, beachsoccer.com wrote. Iran – again under the tutelage of Brazilian coach Marco Octavio – were not in action last month but climb to […]

Iranian basketball national team captain Hamed Haddadi dedicated his shirt to Shahid Fayyazbakhsh Rest Home for Disabled on Monday. The former Memphis Grizzlies center traveled to Mashhad, northeast of Iran, to give his shirt to the rest home. Haddadi was named the Most Valuable Player at the 2017 FIBA Asia Cup in August and he […]