MNA Iranian Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Masoud Soltanifar held a phone conversation with the President of the Asian Football Confederation, Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa, on Sunday.
The phone talk comes as AFC has informed the Iranian football federation that Iranian teams should host their rivals in neutral venues during the 2020 ...
IRNA - Iran's Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs Masoud Soltanifr arrived in Belarus on Wednesday to discuss avenues to further expand sports cooperation with Belarusian officials.
Holding mutual talks as well as signing Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) will be on the agenda of the two sides officials in Belarus.
Soltanifr will be in the host ...
MNA I expect Iranian athletes to have a powerful presence at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said in a meeting with Iranian Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Masoud Soltanifar on Saturday.
Improving access to sports for all and supporting womens sports are top priorities for us, Rouhani said expressing ...
IRNA - Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs Masoud Soltanifar said on Wednesday that the US hostile measure in enlisting IRGC as terrorist is in fact a good favor to Zionist's prime minister in his election campaign.
In the past 40 years, the US and its allies never hesitate to continue their hostile measures against the Islamic Republic of Iran and ...
MNA Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs Masoud Soltanifar said that 85 percent of the countrys sports sites have been constructed after the Islamic Revolution.
He put the number of sports sites constructed before the Islamic Revolution at less than 1,000, the number of which hit more than 8,700 after the Islamic Revolution.
Speaking ...
RFERL - Iran is prepared to help Qatar host the soccer World Cup in 2022, and is offering to provide extra training space or even put whole islands at its disposal, Iranian Sport Minister Masud Soltanifar said on November 13.
"We can assist with training facilities before the World Cup, especially with areas that provide similar climates to that ...
IFP - Irans Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs Massoud Soltanifar has called on the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) to release the Islamic Republics frozen money as soon as possible.
In a Sunday meeting with FIFA Secretary-General Fatma Samoura on the sidelines of the World Cup 2018 in Russia, Soltanifar thanked ...
IRNA - Iran's minister of sports and youth on Sunday conferred with secretary general of the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA).
During the meeting, Masoud Soltanifar praised Fatma Samba Diouf Samoura' attempts to help secure presence of Muslim football players in the world championships while wearing Hijab.
He expressed the ...
Business Standard- The president of FIFA on Thursday called for easing of tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia and not to let it affect any football events.
In a meeting with Iranian Sports Minister Masoud Soltanifar, FIFA's Gianni Infantino expressed his hope that the problem of holding matches between the two countries in their respective territories ...
Tasnim - Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs Masoud Soltanifar hopes that the Iranian football team book a place in the 2018 World Cup next stage.
The Iranian National Football Team (also known as Team Melli) is the first Asian team who has already qualified for the prestigious event.
First, I hope we have a good draw in the 2018 World Cup....
MNA Sports Minister Masoud Soltanifar said the ministry will submit to the new government a number of reform plans over the statutes of federations.
Sports Minister Masoud Soltanifar denied any speculations over the changes and developments in the level of managers of Esteghlal F.C.
Making remarks on the sidelines of cabinet meeting on Wednesday,...
Press TV - The Supreme Stamp Council of Irans Ministry of Communication & Information Technology has agreed to a request to issue a special stamp commemorating thequalification of Iran mens national football team, domestically known as Team Melli, for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.
Iranian Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs Masoud ...
Tasnim - The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) President Sir Philip Craven says Iran boasts some of the biggest global stars in Paralympic sport.
The Iranian National Paralympic Committee arranged for Sir Philip to meet with the Iranian Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs Masoud Soltanifar in Tehran on Wednesday.
Later that day he ...
Tehran Times- Iranian Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs Masoud Soltanifar says that they want to expand ties with Armenia.
Soltanifar met with Armenian ambassador to Tehran Artashes Tumanyan in Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs headquarters on Monday.
Armenia has a high economic potential and two countries have had good relations in the field ...
IRNA The US wrestlers will participate in the 2017 Wrestling World Cup if foreign ministry issues visas for them, said Minister of Youth and Sports, Masood Soltanifar, on Tuesday.
The 2017 World Cup is to be held in Western Iranian city of Kermanshah in February.
'If the Iranian Foreign Ministry decides to issue visas for the US wrestlers, they ...
Tasnim- Soltanifar on Thursday said that the ministry will support the countrys football federation to host the event.
The 2020 tournament will be the ninth edition of futsals premier competition, which has so far been played on four of the six confederations, since beginning life in the Netherlands back in 1989.
Egypt, Georgia, Kazakhstan, the ...
Iran's Parliament has given votes of confidence to three candidates proposed by President Hassan Rouhani to lead the ministries of sports and youth affairs;culture and Islamic guidance;and education.
After extensive debates during two Parliament sessions on Tuesday, Rouhanis picks for the three ministries obtained the green lightfrom the Iranian ...
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has introduced three ministerial nominees to lead the Iranian ministries of sports and youth affairs, educationas well as culture and Islamic guidance.
In a letter to Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani on Sunday, Rouhani named his picks for the three vacant ministerial portfolios for votes of confidence....
October 2,The Iran Project - IranianFirst Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri says international tourism development is a unique opportunity to reduce the destructive roles of regional and international politics and promote tourism diplomacy.
Tourism is one of the main areas in intercultural relations, Jahangiri said in the international tourism investment ...
TABRIZ (Tasnim) Head of Irans Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization (ICHHTO) Masoud Soltanifar said more than five million foreign tourists visited the Islamic Republic in 2015.
Speaking in a meeting with Bangladeshi Minister of Tourism and Civil Aviation Rashed Khan Menon in the northwestern Iranian city of Tabriz on Tuesday,...