TOKYO – Iran started the 2020 Paralympic Games with an 81-39 loss against Australia in Group B of the 2020 Paralympic Games at the Ariake Arena on Thursday. Brett Stibners top-scored for Australia with 21 points and seven rebounds, while Bill Latham scored 15 points, Tristan Knowles (12), and Shaun Norris (11) also hit double […]

TEHRAN – Iran’s Football League Organization announced that the 2021/22 Iran Professional League (IPL) season will kick off on Oct. 19 Head of The Football Federation of the Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI) Shahabeddin Azizi Khadem had previously said the new season will start between Sept. 29 and Oct. 2. Persepolis are defending champions and […]

TEHRAN – A total of four tourism-related projects are scheduled to be inaugurated in Iran’s central Qom province on the occasion of the Government Week (August 24-30), the provincial tourism chief has said. A guest house, a tourist complex, and two vast traditional restaurants will come on stream across the province, Alireza Arjmandi announced on […]

TEHRAN – Iran’s Power Generation, Distribution, and Transmission Company (known as Tavanir), in collaboration with the Iranian Fuel Conservation Company (IFCC), is going to implement a program for installing 3,000 megawatts (three gigawatts) of renewable power plants for agricultural wells across the country, Mehr News Agency reported. According to Tavanir’s Operator for Rural Electricity Expansion […]

TEHRAN- Real state stock exchange to trade lands and houses will be set up in Iran Mercantile Exchange (IME) in the second half of the current Iranian calendar year (September 22, 2021-March 20, 2022), deputy transport and urban development minister announced. Mahmoud Mahmoudzadeh, the deputy minister for housing and construction affairs, said that there has […]

TEHRAN — Judiciary Chief Gholam-Hossein Mohseni Ejei has tasked the attorney general to launch a comprehensive and immediate investigation into mistreatment toward a prisoner at Evin prison. The order followed the publication of news and images from Evin prison in which a prisoner is treated violently. The text of the order of the top judge […]

A recent report published by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has alarmed both Islamabad and Beijing. The report confirms the presence of 6,000 insurgents of the banned militant group Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in Afghanistan. In addition to revealing that TTP maintains ties with the Afghan Taliban, it adds that there are hundreds of anti-Beijing […]

TEHRAN — Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said on Sunday that Iran sells oil and fuel to its friends and allies upon their request. Speaking at his weekly press briefing on Monday, Khatibzadeh also said it is yet unclear whether President Raisi would attend the Baghdad Summit or not. Asked about the shipment of […]

TEHRAN – Iran’s women’s football team lost to Uzbekistan in a friendly match on Monday. In the match held in Tashkent, the Persians suffered a 2-0 loss. Iran will also play Uzbekistan on Thursday. Iran’s women’s football team prepare for the 2022 AFC Women’s Asian Cup qualification. They are scheduled to meet Bangladesh and Jordan […]

TEHRAN – To be honest, I believe Iran will easily win the Group A in the World Cup qualification. I see at this moment only two teams in Asia in the Level of Iran, which are Japan and Australia and both are in Group B. Of course South Korea and Iraq are good teams but […]

TEHRAN— Speaking Saturday evening at the meeting of the National Headquarters for Coronavirus Control, Iranian President Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi said that the process of importing vaccines must not be delayed. In another part of his speech, the President thanked the public, guilds, mourning groups and law enforcement forces for implementing the recent decision of National […]

TEHRAN – New Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said in a meeting with Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi on Sunday that Tehran does not oppose the “principle of negotiation” to revive the 2015 nuclear deal, officially called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). The United States under Donald Trump quit the JCPOA in May 2018 […]