TEHRAN – Former Iran freestyle wrestler Fereydoon Ghanbari passed away on Saturday. He was 44. Ghanbari was hospitalized with pancreatitis at a hospital in Kermanshah, west of Iran but died after the surgery. He won a gold medal at the 1997 Junior World Championships in Helsinki at the 83kg weight category. Ghanbari also won a […]

TEHRAN – Iran’s women’s national football team returned to the latest FIFA Women’s World Ranking released on Friday. Iran had not been included in the ranking over the past months but have returned to the list after the world football governing body extended the permitted-inactivity period at the international stage from 18 months to 48 […]

TEHRAN – Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh has strongly rejected “interventionist and irresponsible” remarks by officials of the Arab League and the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). In a statement on Friday, Khatibzadeh highlighted the “destructive role of a handful of countries”, saying, “These imprudent and irresponsible comments are part of their anti-Iran remarks.” […]

The attack on Iran’s nuclear facility Natanz, coincidentally, happened on the day that the U.S. secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin visited Israel. Lloyd Austin, who was heavily involved in the Afghanistan and Iraq U.S. occupation (war), was the senior military commander in charge of all U.S. and remaining coalition forces in Iraq, since 2010. Iraq […]

TEHRAN – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has revised its estimate of Iran’s total gross official reserves to $115 billion, following the Central Bank of Iran (CBI)’s objection about the fund’s incorrect estimates of the mentioned index. Earlier this week, CBI Governor Abdolnasser Hemmati rejected as flawed and unverified IMF’s recent data which suggested that […]

TEHRAN – Mohsen Bayatinia has been named as Saipa football team interim coach on Friday. The 40-year-old coach has replaced Ebrahim Sadeghi who left the team last week following the poor results Bayatinia is head of Saipa football academy at the same time. Saipa sit 14th in Iran Professional League (IPL) table, two points ahead […]

TEHRAN – Iranian football coach Nader Dastneshan passed away on Friday from COVID-19. The 60-year-old coach was hospitalized at the Razi Hospital in Ghaemshahr since last week but lost his battle with coronavirus. Dastneshan coached so many Iranian football clubs including Nassaji, Malavan, Mes Kerman, Naft Tehran, Steel Azin and Sepidrood Rasht in his 17-year […]

Billboard — In an interview with the Global Times published on Thursday, Mohammad Keshavarzzadeh, the Iranian ambassador to Beijing has pointed out that the West is propagating against strategic ties between Iran and China, since it considers the cooperation as a “threat.” Keshavarzzadeh said he believes that the Western media continue to use the “media” […]

TEHRAN – Some 29 health projects worth 530 billion rials (nearly $12.6 million at the official rate of 42,000 rials) were inaugurated in Zanjan province on Thursday. The projects were inaugurated during a ceremony held through video conferencing with Health Minister Saeed Namaki in attendance. Referring to the opening of more than 1,400 health projects […]

TEHRAN – Students from 133 countries are currently studying in Iranian universities, Afshin Akhoundzadeh, head of the office for non-Iranian students at the Organization of Student Affairs said on Thursday. In 2013, 18,684 Iranian students were studying in Iran, which increased to 57,675 in 2020, he added, IRNA reported. Some 25,000 of the students are […]

TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has ruled out the prospect of Iran and the P4+1 engaging in a process of talks for the sake of talks, saying the duration of the nuclear negotiations is determined by national interests. The chief Iranian diplomat’s comments were posted in Persian on his Instagram page. He […]

TEHRAN – The lush green Gilan province, bounded by the Caspian Sea and the Republic of Azerbaijan on the north, is one of the most picturesque places to visit in Iran. Gilan favors from mild climate and stunning landscape such as sea, dense timberlands, waterfalls, plenty of flowing rivers, green gardens, and the forested coastal […]