TEHRAN – Iran’s First Vice President Es’haq Jahangiri on Saturday announced the cabinet’s new resolution for organizing systematic power outages for domestic and commercial subscribers and to prevent blackouts in the country, IRNA reported. As reported, in a meeting on July 7, the cabinet made some decisions based on the Energy Ministry proposals for reducing […]

TEHRAN — Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei and Iranian President-elect Ebrahim Raisi have expressed condolences in separate messages for the death Palestinian leader Ahmed Jibril. In the message released on Thursday, Ayatollah Khamenei described Jibril as a “tireless warrior” who spent his entire life fighting for the usurped homeland and the […]

TEHRAN – Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad has discussed ways to boost economic ties with Iran in a meeting with a visiting Iranian parliamentary delegation. Meqdad received on Thursday an Iranian parliamentary delegation from the Syrian-Iranian Parliamentary Friendship Association in the Iranian Islamic Consultative Assembly headed by Abbas Golrou, vice president of the Association. During […]

TEHRAN – India has accepted Iran’s invitation to attend the swearing-in ceremony of President-elect Raisi. The invitation was offered at a meeting between Raisi and Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday when the latter was on a brief stopover in Tehran en route to Russia. The Indian foreign minister was the first foreign […]

TEHRAN – Iran will play with the winners of the Japan and Turkey at the 9–12th place semifinals of the FIBA U19 Basketball World Cup on Saturday. The Iranian team defeated Mali 71-59 at the 9–16th place on Friday. Parsa Fallah scored 21 points for Iran and Malian Oumar Ballo earned 17 points. The tournament […]

TEHRAN – Iran’s first exclusive Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) exhibition, which is a platform to showcase the capabilities of the EAEU members and their Iranian counterparts opened at Tehran Permanent International Fairgrounds on Friday, IRIB reported. As reported, 30 companies from Russia, 30 companies from Kyrgyzstan, more than 10 companies from Armenia, more than 10 […]

TEHRAN – Iran learned their AFC U23 Asian Cup Uzbekistan 2022 Qualifiers group stage on Friday. The Iranian team have been drawn in Group B along with Tajikistan (hosts), Nepal and Lebanon. The 42 teams were drawn into 11 groups with 15 spots available at the AFC U23 Asian Cup 2022 with Uzbekistan having already […]

TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Thursday advised the Afghan government and the Taliban that “showing courage in peace is more important than showing courage in war.” Tehran hosted dialogue between representatives from Afghanistan and the Taliban on Wednesday and Thursday. “Showing courage in peace is more important than showing courage in […]

To say the war on Yemen was a major development in the history of West Asia might be an understand. It will certainly go down In history, perhaps not in favor of the Saudis though. In March 2015, Saudi Arabia declared that it and some allies had formed a coalition led by Riyadh and began […]

TEHRAN – Ponferradina have completed the signing of Iranian international goalkeeper Amir Abedzadeh. The 28-year-old goalkeeper has joined the Spanish Segunda Division side from Portuguese club Maritimo. Abedzadeh started his professional career in Orange County SC in the United States in 2011 and after a year he joined Iranian giants Persepolis. Abedzadeh joined Portuguese club […]

TEHRAN – Woman shooter Hanieh Rostamian was named as Iran’s flagbearer at the 2020 Olympic Games opening ceremony. She will carry the nation’s flag at the 23 July ceremony to open the Tokyo Games. Rostamian is a member of Iran’s women’s 10m air pistol at Tokyo. Basketball player Samad Nikkhah Bahrami had been already named […]

TEHRAN – Iran defeated Tajikistan 3-0 in the 2021 CAFA U17 Women’s Championship on Wednesday and finished in second place. Mehrnaz Ezatabadi (18), Mohadese Zolfi (31) and Melika Bagheri (62) were on target for Iran. Iran defeated Afghanistan 6-0 and lost to Uzbekistan 2-0 in the 5-day tournament which was held in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. The […]