Persepolis football coach Branko Ivankovic says they will have a difficult task Tuesday night since Al Hilal are best Asian team. The Saudi Arabian team will host Persepolis in a much-awaited clash in the first leg of their 2017 AFC Champions League semi-final in Abu Dhabi, the UAE. “We know well Al Hilal are the […]

Mehdi Zamani from Iran snatched a gold medal at the World Shooting Para Sport World Cup on Monday. The Iranian para shooter finished in first place, scoring 235.0 points in the P1 10m Air Pistol Men SH1. Damir Bosnjak from Croatia claimed the silver medal with 230.9 points and bronze medal went to Jungnam Kim […]

Iranian taekwondo practitioner Kimia Alizadeh has successfully undergone surgery on her damaged ankle. She underwent surgery in Tehran’s Iranmehr Hospital on Monday. Alizadeh won a silver medal at the 2017 World Taekwondo Championships in June after losing to Ruth Gbagbi from Ivory Coast in the women’s -62 kg final match. Soon after, her doctor said […]

Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has reported that Iran’s Persepolis football team has had a historic AFC Champions League campaign in 2017 so far. The Iranian football team has progressed to the Round of 16, where it defeated Lekhwiya of Qatar 1-0 to reach the quarter-final for the first time. Branko Ivankovic’s men then went one […]

TEHRAN  – Petrochimi Iran crashed Sareyyet Ramallah Palestine 108-45 on Day 3 of the FIBA Asia Champions Cup 2017 on Sunday. The Iranians led by 5 at the end of the first quarter and never looked back, building a 25-point lead at the half and proceeding to continue pounding Sareyyet Ramallah’s hapless defense. 25-year-old Meysam […]

TEHRAN – Iran was defeated against Japan 2-0 in the Ashgabat 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games women’s futsal semi-final on Sunday. Sakata scored both goals for the Japanese team. The defending champion Japan, will face Thailand in the final and Shahrzad Mozafar’s girls meet China in the bronze medal match. Iran, who had […]

TEHRAN  – Farzan Ashourzadeh of Iran claimed a bronze medal at the 2017 World Taekwondo (WT) Grand Prix in Rabat, Capital of Morocco on Saturday. In the men’s under 58kg competition, Ashourzadeh and Spaniard Jesus Tortosa Cabrera rounded out the podium by sharing the bronze medals. South Korean Tae-Hun Kim sealed his country’s second title […]

TEHRAN – Iran’s CP football team suffered a loss in the face of Ukrainian rivals to land in the second place at 2017 IFCPF CP Football World Championships in Argentina. The final showdown saw Iranian and Ukrainian CP footballers competing over the gold medal. At the end of a breath-taking debut, Ukraine got the better […]

TEHRAN  – Olympic champion Sohrab Moradi broke the overall men’s 94 kilograms weightlifting world record at the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games on Saturday. Moradi registered a total of 413kg to beat the mark set by Greece’s Akakios Kakhiasvilis as far back as November 1999 by 1kg. It came after he won the […]

TEHRAN  – Iran advanced to the last four of the Ashgabat 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games men’s futsal after beating Thailand 10-4 on Saturday. Iran stormed into the last four of the Ashgabat 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games men’s futsal after beating Thailand 10-4 in the quarter-finals on Saturday. “We are […]