TEHRAN – Iran suffered their third successive loss in the 2021 World Women’s Handball Championship, losing to Kazakhstan 31-25 Tuesday night. The Iranian team had lost to Romania 39-11 and Norway 41-9 in Group C. Iran will meet Uzbekistan on Thursday in Group I in the competition’s Presidents Cup. Group II consists of Slovakia, Tunisia, […]
TEHRAN – Iran and other remaining parties to the 2015 nuclear deal along with the U.S. are set to start a new round of negotiations on Thursday, December 9, in Vienna, Austria. The talks are aimed at securing a removal of the illegal sanctions imposed by the U.S. on Iran after Donald Trump unilaterally quit […]
TEHRAN – Iran has announced readiness to continue cooperation with the World Health Organization (WHO) in strengthening and expanding traditional medicine and medicinal plants at the international level, Arman Zargaran, an advisor to the traditional medicine office at the Ministry of Health, has said. Zargaran described Iran’s capabilities and capacities in the field of traditional […]
TEHRAN – Iran’s women’s football team head coach Maryam Irandoost says that they were supposed to play some friendly matches ahead of the 2022 AFC Women’s Asian Cup but the matches are canceled. Iran are in Group A along with India, China and Chinese Taipei. The 2022 AFC Women’s Asian Cup will serve as the […]
TEHRAN – Iran national volleyball team have been invited to the 19th edition of “Hubert Wagner” memorial. The competition will be held from Aug. 11 to 13, 2022 in Krakow, Poland. Iran aim to take part in the tournament as part of preparation for the 2022 FIVB Volleyball Men’s World Championship which are scheduled for […]
TEHRAN – A clean-up project is planned to be commenced on the English Graveyard in the southwestern Bushehr province, the deputy provincial tourism chief has announced. Preservation of historical monuments is a priority, which is why the main tombstones of the cemetery have been collected for better preservation, Nasrollah Ebrahimi said on Monday. When the […]
TEHRAN – Iranian police have recently busted a gang of illegal diggers in Alamut, a semi-mountainous historical region in Qazvin province, west-central Iran, CHTN reported on Monday. Five illegal excavators, who were digging near the historical Alamut Castle, were detained in this regard, said Hassan Mehri, a senior police official in charge of protecting cultural […]
TEHRAN – Iran’s top negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani will brief lawmakers sitting on the Parliament National Security and Foreign Policy Committee on the outcome of the recent round of the Vienna talks. The spokesman for the parliamentary committee, Mahmoud Abbaszadeh Meshkini, said during this week Bagheri Kani will attend a meeting of the committee to […]
TEHRAN – A total of 5,421 inmates of involuntary crimes have been released during the first eight months of the current [Iranian calendar] year (began March 21) with the help of philanthropists and charities, Asadollah Joolaei, head of Blood Money Organization, has said. Freeing prisoners of involuntary crimes is done in three ways. The first […]
TEHRAN – Iran lost to European champions Norway 41-9 in their second match in the 2021 World Women’s Handball Championship Sunday night. Iran had started the campaign with a 39-11 loss against Romania in Group C. Iran goalkeeper Fatemeh Khalili Behfar was named Player of the Match due to her outstanding saves. Iran will take […]
TEHRAN — French President Emmanuel Macron visited the West Asia region amid diplomatic standoff between Iran and the European troika (France, UK, and Germany). What is the true purpose of such visits? The answer can be found here: France and Britain, as two members of the European troika, do not like a calm region. A […]
TEHRAN – Ahmad Aminzadeh claimed Iran’s third gold at the 2021 World Para Powerlifting Championships on Sunday in Tbilisi, Georgia. He lifted 255kg in the men’s over 107kg and finished in first place. His countryman Mehdi Sayadi took the silver with a lift of 247kg. Bronze medal went to Russian powerlifter Konstantin Matsnev who lifted […]
