Azam Sanaei, the 34-year-old captain of the Iranian womens ice hockey team, has just returned from Thailand where her team ended up as the runner-up in the 2023 IIHF Ice Hockey Women's Asia and Oceania Championship.
After impressive performances against formidable opponents throughout the tournament, the Iranian team went down fighting in the summit ...
Iran's top female free water swimmer Elham Asghari set a new Guinness record, getting her name in the famous Guinness world record book for the fourth time.
The endurance swimmer set her fourth record by pulling a kayak weighing 15 kilograms, with a 40kg weight being inside.
It took an hour and 58 minutes for Asghari to swim 5 kilometers ...
An Iranian woman, Raheleh Tahmasbi, who previously grabbed the attention of media and state officials as the first female seafarer of Iran, has made history for this time around after being promoted to the rank of naval captain.
Raheleh Tahmasbi started her seafaring career in 2010 with a sailor certificate in Bandar Lengeh port city, southern Iran....
Iranian Meshkatolzahra Safi has advanced to the second round of the Tennis Girls Singles of the Australian Open after a historic twosets to love victory over Anja Nayar of the hosting country.
The 17-year-old Iranian overcame her Australian opponent with a score-line of 6-4 and 6-3. After claiming titles in several under-18 world tournaments Safi ...
Irans deputy ambassador to the United Nations highlighted the countrys determination to take the necessary measures for the empowerment of women and girls and provide the ground for them to play their important role in the society.
Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative of Iran to the United NationsZahra Ershadidelivered a speech to a Thursday ...
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei applauded Iranian women for their stellar presence in various fields since the victory of the Islamic Revolution, saying women martyred, injured, or imprisoned in the war are at the summit of glory.
In a message to a national congress held in commemoration of female martyrs, Ayatollah ...
ABC - Iranian women have taken to Twitter to break years of silence and share detailed stories of sexual abuse, including intrafamilial incidents, naming alleged abusers with hashtags such as #rape, #assault and #NoMeansNo.
Some alleged abusers are well-connected and famous figures in Iran -- stars of sports and media and the arts, doctors, teachers ...
AFP | Lucie Peytermann: From the hustle and bustle of a startup, Fereshteh Kasrai now works from home, like many Iranian women fighting to keep hard-won tech jobs as the coronavirus outbreak stirs uncertainty.
Iran says the COVID-19 disease has claimed more than 5,200 lives and infected close to 83,000 over the past two months, in the Middle East's ...
Press TV - Iranian women have volunteered to sew masks and protective gowns to fight the spread of coronavirus in Tehran, as the death toll from the virus passed the 3,600 mark on Sunday.
In a workshop in Tehran, dozens of women have been working together since mid-March to produce the protective equipment. The masks are later distributed for ...
MNA Emphasizing the shortage of health and medical facilities due to US illegal sanctions, the Chairman of women and family fraction in Irans Parliament Farideh Olad Ghobad sent a letter to Silvana Koch-Mehrin, the President and Founder of Women Political Leaders (WPL).
Addressing the president of WPL about the serious threat caused by sanctions ...
MNA Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said that healthy competition between men and women in the society is possible only through giving them equal opportunities.
President described Lady Fatimah al-Zahra (AS) as the best role model for women and society, stressing that it was necessary to correct everyone's views on the status of women in society,...
MNA Female cyclist Faranak Parto-Azar won a bronze medal in the 26th edition of Asian Mountain Bike Continental Championships in Thailand.
She won the first medal of the Iranian team in the event on Tuesday in the cross-country class.
In males cross-country, Irans Faraz Shokri and Farzad Khodyari will hit the mountains today.
Thailands Chiang ...
Iran Front Page - Iranian photographer and gallery manager Anahita Ghabaian Etehadieh has been invited by the French Minister of Culture to receive the Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in early 2020.
The order is awarded by the French government both to French and non-French nationals who make significant contributions to the arts, literature,...
Tehran Times - Elham Hosseini became the first Iranian woman to win a medal in an international weightlifting tournament.
Hosseini claimed a bronze medal at the 2019 Weightlifting IWF Naim Suleymanoglu Tournament on Saturday.
She lifted 88kg in the snatch and 110kg in clean and jerk and won the bronze for a total of 198kg in the 74kg weight class....
IRNA Iranian weightlifting team including three men and two women will participate in the Weightlifting IWF Naim Suleymanoglu Tournament 2019 to be held in Gaziantep, Turkey, on November 14-17.
It was in 2017 that the Iranian Weightlifting Federation announced officially that female athletes are allowed to compete in the world contests. After two ...
The New York Times | Arash Azizi: A dissident politician and womens rights advocate, she sought repeatedly to be accepted as a presidential candidate but each time was denied.
Azam Taleghani, a dissident politician and womens rights activist who repeatedly fought to become the first female presidential candidate in Iranian history and each time ...
Press TV - Iranian women athletes have had a glorious day at the 15th edition of the World Wushu Championships underway in China, pocketing two gold medals so far.
In the Sanda discipline and the minus 70 kg category, Shahbano Mansourian managed to earn Irans first gold medal, after defeating her Brazilian opponent in the final with an impressive ...
Press TV - Reports in the Iranian media shows a female captain and her co-pilot have flown a passenger plane, a first in the history of the countrys aviation industry.
The reports published on Tuesday showed photos of the two pilots taken from the social media showing them before and after the two-way flight between the capital Tehran and the second ...
Al-Monitor | Saeid Jafari: I just cannot believe how much we shouted and cheered, Maryam, 27, told Al-Monitor as she walked out of Tehran's Azadi Stadium. I even cried at some point; I was so moved.
On Oct. 10, the Iranian national soccer team scored 14 goals against the Cambodian team in the qualifier for the World Cup 2022, which will take place ...
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