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Iran: A People Interrupted




Photos: Horse Racing in Gonbad-e Qabus, Iran

Iranian women win medals in Asian wushu event
Two Iranian women wushu athletes attained bronze medals in the seventh Asian Wushu Championships, which is underway in Macau. - 5/14/08



Iranian futsal team sweeps Tajikistan
Reigning champion Iran obliterated a helpless Tajikistan futsal team 14-0 on Tuesday in the 10th AFC Futsal Championship 2008 in Bangkok, Thailand. -MNA - 5/14/08

Iran Tose'e Karaj clinches Asian Water Polo Championship
Iran's Tose'e Karaj water polo team defeated Guangdong of China in the 6th Asian Water Polo Clubs Championship final game in Kuwait on Saturday -MNA - 5/11/08

Iran qualifies for beach soccer world cup
Iran's beach soccer team qualified for the 2008 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup after beating China here on Saturday. -MNA - 5/11/08

A championship without Hercules Rezazadeh

Iran's futsal team thrashes Kuwait
Iran's futsal team swept Kuwait in the 10th AFC Futsal Championship 2008 opener in Bangkok, Thailand, on Sunday. -MNA - 5/11/08

Iran's Hadadi wins gold in Super Grand Prix
Iranian discus thrower Ehsan Hadadi clinched the gold medal on Friday at the 11th Qatar Athletics Super Grand Prix at Suhaim Bin Hamad Stadium. -MNA - 5/10/08

Iran's cerebral palsy football team to play England
Iranian cerebral palsy (CP) football team will play England in Kiev, capital of Ukraine, on Wednesday. A total of six teams, namely Ukraine(host), Iran, England, China, the Netherlands and Brazil are taking part in the competitions entitled "small Paralympics". -MNA - 5/7/08

Iran's beach football team gear up for world cup
Iranian beach football team will play the Philippines on May 7 in Group B of the Asian Beach football Championship in Jumeirah, Dubai, the United Arab Emirates. -MNA - 5/4/08

Iranian paddlers to receive bonus
Iranian paddler duo, Mohsen Shadi and Homa Hosseini, who have qualified for Olympics will be awarded a cash prize of 50 million rials by Iran's boating federation. -MNA - 5/4/08

Iran basketball player dies in car accident

Iran's weightlifting team clinches runners-up spot in Asia
Iran's weightlifting team came in second place on Thursday in the 39th Asian Weightlifting Championship in Kanazawa, Japan. Iran bagged 6 gold medals, 3 silver and 2 bronze in the tournament. China won the championship with 12 gold medals, 6 silver and 2 bronze. - 5/3/08

Galaxy eye potential date against Iran
Los Angeles Galaxy officials have confirmed that the club is in negotiations to play a friendly match with the Iranian national team sometime in May. -ESPNsoccernet - 5/1/08

Angry Daei threatens to quit as Iran football coach
Iran's coach Ali Daei launched a furious tirade against his football federation on Tuesday, threatening to quit and revealing he is still waiting for a contract to sign. -AFP - 4/30/08

Iran crowned taekwondo champ in Asia after 38 years
Iran's Men's Taekwondo Team has brought Korea's reign to an end after 38 years in the Asian championship in Zhengzhou, China, on Monday. -MNA - 4/29/08

Iran Men's Sitting Volleyball Team takes gold
Iranian Men's Sitting Volleyball Team won the World Organization Volleyball for Disabled (WOVD) Intercontinental Cup after beating Russia in Ismailia, Egypt, on Tuesday. -MNA - 4/29/08

World Shin Do Kumate Association Announces Master Mehrdad Muay Thai Classic XVIII

Iran's Ebrahimi crowned champ in Asian weightlifting
Iranian weightlifter Asghar Ebrahimi has bagged three gold medals on Wednesday in the 39th Asian Weightlifting Championship in Kanazawa, Japan. - 4/29/08

Qadakchian making Iranian Hercules biopic
Director Hamid Qadakchian is currently making a documentary film on life story of the world's four-time and twice Olympic +105kg weightlifting gold medalist Hossein Rezazadeh. - 4/29/08

Iran national team officially invited by US soccer federation
Iran's national football team received an official invitation from the US soccer federation to travel for two friendly games in the United States, it was reported on Monday. - 4/28/08

A championship without Hercules Rezazadeh
World champion Hossein Rezazadeh of Iran is reportedly to skip the Asian Weightlifting Championships to prepare for the Beijing Olympics. - 4/28/08

Iran wis Asian Judo Championship
Iranian duo judoka Arash Mir-Esmaeili and Ali Ma'lumat won the gold medals in the 2008 Asian Judo Championship, in Jeju, South Korea on Sunday. - 4/27/08

Persepolis and Esteqlal draw 1-1 before 100,000 football fans in Tehran

Iranian woman rower Homa Hosseini books Olympic place
Homa Hosseini has secured an Olympic berth in the Women's Heavyweight Single Sculls at the Shanghai Water Sports Centre on Sunday. - 4/27/08

Iranian woman taekwondoka wins gold
Fatemeh Nemati claimed the gold medal in the women's category of the 18th Asian Senior Taekwondo Championship in Zhengzhou, China, on Sunday. -MNA - 4/27/08

Iran wins rowing Olympic berth
Iranian rower, Mohsen Shadi, has won an Olympic berth for his country at the Asian rowing championships, which are being held in China. Meanwhile, Iranian female rower, Homa Hosseini, has reached the final stage at women's heavyweight single sculls to compete with her Asian opponents to get another Olympic berth for her country on Sunday. -Press TV - 4/26/08

Football: Iran's Sepahan defeats Saudi al-Ittihad
Iran's Sepahan football team has managed to defeat Saudi Arabia's al-Ittihad 1-0 in a difficult match of the AFC Champions League. - 4/24/08

Football legend Pele to visit Iran
Edison Arantes do Nascimento best known by his nickname Pele, the most popular soccer player worldwide, will visit Iran in May, a member of Iran Football Federation said here on Wednesday. -IRNA - 4/24/08

Iran's Sepahan in Asian League final

Beckham diplomacy may thaw US-Iran relations
CAN David Beckham defuse tensions between Iran and the US? Iranian football fans certainly hope so. They are bursting with anticipation after Iranian officials said Beckham's LA Galaxy club has challenged the Iranian national team to a friendly match in the US next month. -Scotsman - 4/24/08

Play American Flag Football in Tehran!!
The first ever American Flag Football team in Tehran has been organized and is looking for new recruits. Interested players are encouraged to join the team. Also, anyone with coaching experience is welcome to join. - 4/21/08

Iran's football team likely to play L.A.Galaxy
Iran's Football Federation (IFF) is waiting for the official invitation from the U.S. Soccer Federation to hold a friendly game against Los Angeles Galaxy. -MNA - 4/20/08

Photos: Horse Racing in Gonbad-e Qabus, Iran
Gonbad-e Qâbus or Gonbad-e Kâvus (also transcribed Gonbad-e Ghâbus or Gonbad-i Ghâboos) is a city in the province of Golestan in Iran. It had an estimated population of 135,868 in 2005. The city is famous for a historic brick tower by the same name. - 4/20/08

Iran's Alirezaii wins Asian 50m breaststroke gold

7 Iranian wrestlers to go for the gold in Beijing
Wrestler Ali Asghar Bazri (74 kg class) won the last Olympics berth on the Iranian wrestling team in Switzerland on Sunday. Iran will send seven wrestlers to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games to compete in all categories. -MNA - 4/20/08

Persepolis beat Malavan to end winless run
After a five weeks winless run, Persepolis Football Team defeated Malavan Bandar Anzali here at Azadi Stadium on Friday in the 28th week of Iran Professional League to return to the title race. -MNA - 4/19/08

Iran's Women's Basketball Team reaches semi-final of West Asian Championship
Iran's National Women's Basketball Team beat Iraq with a landslide 44 to 108 victory to reach the semi-final match of the West Asian Women's Basketball Championship. -IRNA - 4/17/08

World Shin Do Kumate Association Announces Master Mehrdad Muay Thai Classic XVIII
Featured Fighters include Shahnaz Moayedi, who is a 13 year old John Hopkins Middle School student.  Shahnaz is a brown belt in Martial Arts. Her sister, Soudabah Moayedi, a brown belt with 10 years in Martial Arts/Muay Thai, is another stand out female fighter, who at the age of 15 has a stellar record of 11-2.  - 4/17/08

Iran, Indonesia in beach volleyball final
Iran's Saipa beach volleyball team is slated to play against Indonesia at the ninth Asian Beach Volleyball Tournament final in Thailand. The Iranian volleyball team managed to win China's team A 2-0 at the semifinal on Wednesday morning. -Press TV - 4/16/08

Iran takes first place in Tehran's international snowboarding competition
Thirty-four skiers from Iran, Australia, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia and Croatia participated in the three-day event, which ended on Friday. - 4/13/08

First Iranian female international volleyball referee appointed
Sadiqeh Hatemabadi Farahani has made Iranian volleyball history by becoming the first Iranian female international referee. -MNA - 4/13/08

Iranian women taekwondo team to compete in China
The Iranian women's taekwondo team will compete in the Asian Taekwondo Championship, which is being held in China from April 26 to 28. - 4/12/08

Iran's Saipa defeats Iraq's al-Quwa 1-0
Iran's Saipa has defeated its Iraqi rival al-Quwa al-Jawiya in the AFC (Asian Football Confederation) Champions League despite playing with 10 men in the second half. -Press TV - 4/10/08

Iran's Sepahan seals home win over Saudi Arabia's al-Ittihad
Iran's Sepahan Isfahan FC beats Saudi Arabia's al-Ittihad 2-1 to clinch its first victory in three games in the AFC (Asian Football Confederation) Champions League. -Press TV - 4/9/08

Iran volleyball team focusing on Olympics qualifiers
Iran's volleyball team is set to book a berth in the upcoming Olympics in the Olympic qualification tournament, which is being held in Tokyo from May 31 to June 8. The team will take part in two warm-up games against Serbia and Egypt prior to the Japan competition. - 4/9/08

Iranian men and women fencers competing in world championships
Iran's male and female fencing teams will compete in the 2008 World Fencing Championship, which opens on Wednesday in Catania, Italy. -MNA - 4/9/08

Iran's Persepolis may suffer FIFA penalty
FIFA has warned Iran's Persepolis of deducting more points if it fails to pay a former coach, the team's managing director has said. -Press TV - 4/8/08

Iranian swimmers to participate in Manchester tourney
Iran's four-member swimming team flew to Manchester, England, early Sunday for participating in the FINA World Short Course(25 m) Swimming Championships. - 4/7/08

Iran women cyclists to compete in Japan
Iran's women cyclists will compete in the upcoming Asian Cycling Championships and the 15th Asian Junior Cycling Championships in Japan. -Press TV - 4/5/08

Iran: Esteqlal, Persepolis tie 1-1 in Tehran
The two Iranian arch-rivals, Persepolis and Esteqlal, are held to a 1-1 draw, failing to live up to expectations at Tehran's Azadi Stadium. - 4/4/08

Girl Racer
Iranian women are exploring new boundaries and opportunities in education and careers - not least female racing car champion Laleh Seddigh - until that is she was banned from competitions following allegations of engine tampering. –BBC - 4/4/08

Germany-Iran 1998 World Cup match among the most-watched in German TV history
Germany's 2-0 win over Iran during the first-round match of the 1998 World Cup in France was among the top ten most-watched football games in the history of television broadcasts of German national teams, DPA quoted Wednesday a consumer research group, based in the southern city of Nuremberg. - 4/3/08

Iran bags 9 Taekwondo medals in Bahrain competitions
Iranian junior Taekwondo practitioners have won nine medals on the first day of the Bahrain International Taekwondo Championship. -Press TV - 3/31/08

Soccer: Iran and Kuwait tie 2-2 in World Cup qualifier
Kuwait has stopped Iran's national soccer team in the second match of South Africa's 2010 World Cup qualifier with a 2-2 draw. -Press TV - 3/27/08

Iran, Portugal draw 2-2 in futsal friendly
The Iranian national futsal team settles for a 2-2 draw in a friendly match against Portugal as it prepares for the Asian championship. -Press TV - 3/27/08

Iranian women's football team defeated 4-1 by Vietnam
Head coach of the Iranian women's football team is satisfied with performance of her side despite the squad's 4-1 loss against Vietnam. -Press TV - 3/26/08

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