Al Khor midfielder Soroush Rafiei will likely reunite with his former coach Amir Ghalenoei in Iranian football club Zob Ahan. Iranian media reports suggest that the 27-year-old attacking midfielder is a target for Isfahan-based Zob Ahan. Rafiei had already been linked with a move to Sepahan, headed by Zlatko Kranjcar. He joined Al Khor in […]

TEHRAN – Iran’s ambassador to Qatar Mohammed Ali Sobhani met with the President of the Qatar Football Association (QFA), Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa bin Ahmed al-Thani, in QFA’s headquarters on Tuesday. QFA Vice President Saoud al-Mohannadi, General Secretary Mansoor al-Ansari, and Executive Director Ali Dawood also attended the meeting, which took place at the Al […]

TEHRAN  – Iran will take part with four representatives in the 2017 World Taekwondo Grand Prix. The competition has been scheduled to take place in Abidjan, Ivory Coast on December 2 and 3. It precedes the World Team Championships, which are due to take place on December 5 and 6. Armin Hadipour and Farzan Ashourzadeh […]

Paralympic Games gold medal winner in shooting Sareh Javanmard is going to sell her medal to raise money for the victims of Sunday’s earthquake which left at least 500 people dead in Iran. The 7.3-magnitude quake struck in the remote border area between Iran and Iraq late Sunday. As of right now, the earthquake has […]

Olympic gold medal winner in Rio 2016 Kianoush Rostami is going to auction his medal to give the money to the people who were affected by the earthquake. A 7.3 magnitude earthquake that struck Iran’s western provinces has killed at least 450 people and injured more than 7,000 others. The earthquake also caused major damage […]

TEHRAN– The Iranian national handball team will take part at the tournament in Doha, Qatar. The tournament will be held in January with participation of Qatar, Iran, Oman and Algeria. The event comes in light of the preparation for the 18th Asian Handball Championship to be staged in South Korea in January 2018. The event […]

TEHRAN  – Former Iranian national football team’s player Mehdi Mahdavikia has received an invitation from the International Federation of Football (FIFA) to attend the 2018 World Cup draw ceremony. The ceremony will be held at the Kremlin Palace Ballroom in Moscow on Dec. 1. This invitation came in recognition of the great role played by […]

Iran national football team defeated Venezuela 1-0 thanks to a goal from Alireza Jahanbakhsh on Monday. Iran and Venezuela players observed a minute’s silence to remember those killed in the magnitude-7.3 earthquake that struck late Sunday in Iran’s western provinces. In the match held at the Goffertstadion in Nijmegen in the Netherlands, Jahanbakhsh found the […]

Italy failed to qualify for the World Cup for the first time in 60 years after being held to a 0-0 draw at home to Sweden who booked a place in Russia with a 1-0 aggregate win on Monday. Sweden survived wave after wave of Italian attacks in the second leg of their European playoff […]

Former Iran national football team striker Akbar Eftekhari was laid to rest in Tehran’s Behesh Zahra Cemetery on Saturday. He passed away on Thursday at the age of 73 in Tehran’s Ebne Sina Hospital after a long battle with disease. Eftekhari started his professional playing career at Iranian football club Daraei in 1962 and played […]