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The Football Federation of the Islamic Republic of Iran is taking steps to remove...
The Football Federation of the Islamic Republic of Iran is taking steps to remove...
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Intelligence Organization has prevented a...
The International Sports Press Association (AIPS) has condemned the sentencing of two...
Iranian women athletes who participated in last year’s nationwide protests or took stands against the Islamic Republic’s compulsory headscarf rules have been forced to back down from their beliefs under the pressure of the Ministry of Sports and Youth as well as the security and intelligence...
Amnesty International is urging the Iranian authorities to immediately quash the convictions and death sentences of three young protesters who have been subjected to “gruesome torture” and denied the right to a fair trial.Arshia Takdastan, 18, Mehdi Mohammadifard, 19, and Javad Rouhi, 31, endured...
Iranian professional soccer player Voria Ghafouri has been sacked from his team after criticizing the Islamic Republic’s bloody response to ongoing nationwide protests.The head coach of Fooald FC in the southern city of Ahvaz announced that Ghafouri had no place in the team, Iranian media...
An Iranian court has sentenced prominent sports journalist Ehsan Pirbornash to 18 years in prison, his wife says, amid an intensifying clampdown on the media in the country."Despite having a letter from the prison's doctor stating that he is sick and could not tolerate imprisonment, and despite...
Iranian security forces have arrested a Kurdish bodybuilder who has expressed support for the ongoing nationwide protests, IranWire reports.Armed forces raided Aso Yari's house in the mainly Kurdish city of Javanrud on January 4 and transferred him to an unknown location.Yari is a bodybuilding...
Prominent Iranian photojournalist Yalda Moaiery says she has been sentenced to six years in prison as well as community work as part of her punishment for covering anti-government protests.In a video posted on Instagram on January 6, Moaiery appeared in an orange uniform cleaning a street with a...
The Iranian authorities have responded to the ongoing wave of nationwide protests with...
The husband of an Iranian journalist who has been behind bars for three months has...
Amir Nasr-Azadani, a former player for the Rah-Ahan, Tractor, and Gol-e Rayhan...
Jürgen Lokadia, the Dutch striker of Tehran's Persepolis football team, left Iran on...
A semiofficial Iranian newspaper has asked the authorities to "shut down" the Football...
The commander Iran's elite Quds Force has said that all journalists who have been...
Mr Olympia 2022, the most prestigious bodybuilding contest, wrapped up in Las Vegas on...
Detained women journalists have been moved to Qarchak prison from Evin amid an...
The family of an Iranian doctor who was tortured and killed by Iranian security forces...
Iranians wounded by the security forces during the ongoing nationwide protests avoid...
All layers of Iranian society have been affected by the heavy-handed crackdown...
A second protester arrested during the nationwide uprising of the Iranian people has...
Amir Nasr-Azadani, a former player for the Rah-Ahan, Tractor, and Gol-e Rayhan...
On October 22 in the Iranian city of Dezful, western Khuzestan province, security...
Iran has hanged a man for allegedly injuring a member of the paramilitary Basij force,...
Iran's semiofficial ISNA news agency reported this week that the restaurant and...
Mehdi Taj has been president of the Iranian Football Federation since August 30, 2022....
This is the story of a man who was supposed to be the head coach of a football team,...
Iran's Football Federation has sacked four members of the national beach football team...
Iran's defeat to the United States at the World Cup has triggered unusual celebrations...
With the 2022 World Cup now underway in Qatar, three sports journalists and a sports...
Supreme leader Ali Khamenei's ideological influence has affected Iranian athletes in...
Iranian police have arrested sports journalist Mehdi Amirpour and moved him to the notorious Evin prison, the reporter's wife said on Saturday. Security forces raided Amirpour's house at 2 am on Sunday, confiscated his electronic devices and arrested him after he posted about Iranian athletes’...
Iran's national team, or "Team Melli", has qualified for the World Cup for the sixth...
During Iran's World Cup opener on November 21, the coach of the national team made...
Two Iranian football stars have announced they would not attend the upcoming World Cup...
Iranian football star Yahya Golmohammdi has criticized the country's national team...
Iranian media outlets have reporrted the abrupt " disappearance" of 17-year-old...
The 2022 World Cup draw on Friday put Iran's national football team in what was...
Tuesday, March 29 might yet be a watershed moment in the history of Iranian football...
Our appointment was due to take place on a street where I once lived for almost two...
This week, two separate, telling statements were issued by the Iranian judiciary and an...
Nearly two months ago on Saturday, September 25, 2021, the Iranian national women’s...
"Things have been said that can't be taken back, by numerous people in his circle. I...
A top sports official in Iran has been quoted by Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting...
This week Dariush Mostafavi, head of the Iranian Football Federation's Appeals...
In footballing history, no figure is more infamous for enabling corruption and...
Iranian women's ice hockey is celebrating success in its first international event,...
This week, on the very same day as women were once again being barred from getting...
"Cycling has taught me flexibility and allows me to overcome obstacles more easily....
In what might be one of the most expensive incidences of nepotism in the history of the...
On Saturday, at a meeting with Iranian medalists in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and...
Kimia Alizadeh, Iran’s 23-year-old “daughter-in-exile”, has achieved fourth place in...
Two independent sources have told IranWire that the International Olympic Committee...
She sits in the back seat of a car driving at high speed on one of Isfahan's highways. Due to a technical defect, the car suddenly deviates from its course, hits the wall of the highway, tumbles and rolls for more than 150 meters. Three of her vertebrae are broken and part of her spine is...
On the night of Sunday, March 14, the Iranian top snooker player Soheil Vahedi competed...
Following an attack on female Iranian mountaineers, a climbing association has issued...
Die Trainerin der iranischen Frauen-Ski-Nationalmannschaft, Samira Zargari, durfte...
Female athletes and officials have faced harsh discrimination for many decades in the...
The Iranian Ski Federation has received billions of tomans' worth of guarantees from...
The International Chess Federation has threatened Iran with suspension because of its...
Security forces have cracked down on supporters of the Unity for Navid campaign, which...
Naeemeh Zafar, a basketball coach and reporter who chaired the Training Committee of...
Two prominent Iranian footballers, Mehrdad Minavand and Ali Ansarian, have died of...
For a few days at least, the western Iranian city of Kermanshah is putting itself above...
Noora Naraghi was the first Iranian women's motocross champion. She won the off-road...
Never before has a football match caused such controversy in Iran.The storm started...
Zahra Nemati, ArcheryThe Guardian has praised Zahra Nemati as a trailblazer who “wins...
The Secretary-General of Iran’s National Paralympics Team informed Golbarnejad’s family...
Rabab Shahrian, they say, proves a thermodynamic law in Iranian sports. Never to be...
In dieser Reihe berichten geflüchtete Journalisten über ihr neues Leben in...
In the second part of IranWire's series about Iran's national football team, Payan...
The manager of Iran’s national football team, Carlos Queiroz, has repeatedly butted...
The manager of Iran's national football team, Carlos Queiroz, has repeatedly butted...
When Iran's Football Federation handed down a six-month ban to Persepolis goalie Sosha...
As most social media platforms are banned in Iran, many young comedians have become...
The news that the Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova had tested positive for doping...
علی کفاشیان رئیس فدراسیون فوتبال ایران اعلام کرده است که در صورت مخالفت وزیر ورزش و...
"Hast du eine Zigarette?"Diese rekursive ihre Frage nach einer Sprechzeit auf wackligen...
Ein Held in den Armen des Todes#"Sarah Abdolmaleki" kann eines der Genies der Iran...