Qatar announced plans to pull out of OPEC on Monday, just days before a crucial meeting between the influential oil cartel and its allies. Speaking at a news conference, Qatar’s Energy Minister Saad al-Kaabi said the country would withdraw from OPEC on January 1, 2019, ending a membership which has stood for more than half-a-century. […]

 Persepolis of Iran football team earned a remarkable 1-0 win over Qatari giants Al Sadd in the first leg of the AFC Champions League semi-finals. In the match held in Doha’s Jassim bin Hamad Stadium, Ali Alipour was on target from the penalty spot in the 86th minute. Persepolis won the match without their three […]

TEHRAN- The daily production of gas from Iran’s South Pars gas field (shared with Qatar in the Persian Gul) will increase 56 million cubic meters (mcm) in the next Iranian calendar year (starting on March 21, 2018), according to the managing director of Pars Oil and Gas Company (POGC), which is in charge of developing […]

Gharibabadi, Iranian Permanent Representative to the United Nations and International Organizations in Vienna and his Qatari counterpart met on Tuesday and shared views on bilateral cooperation in international organizations. Kazem Gharibabadi, the Iranian Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), met with Qatari Permanent Representative to the United Nations and International […]

Iranian mens’ handball team suffered loss from Qatar in their second game at 2018 Asian Games underway in Indonesia. In a Friday match at GOR Popki Cibubur Stadium, national handball team of Qatar, which uses many multinational players, defeated Iran 35-20. Iran had gained a 55-11 victory over Malaysia in their first game. Both teams […]

 The Saturday match between Iran and Qatar in the quarter finals of Asian Men’s Junior Handball Championship finished with 26-26 draw. This was the second match of Iranian squad in this stage where they were stopped by Qatar. In the first match, Iran also finished the match against Japan with a 19-19 draw. With these […]

TEHRAN – President of the Football Federation of the Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI) Mehdi Taj and Qatar Football Association (QFA) President Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa bin Ahmed al Thani met in Moscow on the sidelines of the 2018 World Cup final on Sunday. The Presidents discussed on areas of mutual interest while stressing on […]

The United Arab Emirates Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash has expressed remarks on Monday indicating his anger at the telephone conversation between the President of Iran and the Emir of Qatar. “I do not think that Qatari citizens are satisfied with their government’s support for Houthis or close ties with Tehran, nor […]

Qatari Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Khalid Al Attiyah highlighted that his country will not support any conflict with Iran. Although Iran and Qatar have “a lot of differences”, this does not mean that “we go and fuel a war” in the region, Associated Press quoted him as saying. Making the remarks on […]

TEHRAN- An Iran-Qatar business forum attended by a number of Iranian and Qatari traders and businessmen was held in Qatar’s capital Doha on Monday. Addressing the forum, Hossein Pir-Moazzen, a board member of Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture (ICCIMA), who headed the Iranian participants, referred to the negotiations made during the sixth […]