TEHRAN - Fatemeh Safarpour, head coach of Iran women's junior taekwondo team, appreciated the performance of Iranian girls in the 2022 World Taekwondo Junior Championships.

More than 1,250 athletes from 90 countries plus a refugee team competed in Sofia, Bulgaria, during the World Championships.

Sogand Shiri in the -42 kg and Mobina Nematzadeh in

TEHRAN – Iranian young boxer Mohammadamin Roostaei passed away early Wednesday.

He died of brain injury at the Kosar Hospital in Sannandaj, capital of Kordestan Province.

Roostaei was hospitalized in the hospital after he collapsed while training in the gym.

He underwent surgery on Tuesday but lost his life.

Roostaei was a member of Iran youth boxing

TEHRAN – Three candidates are in the race to become the Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI)'s next president.

Mirshad Majedi, current caretaker of FFIRI, Azizollah Mohammadi, former head of the league organization, and Mehdi Taj, ex-president of the football federation, are candidates for the post.

The FFIRI presidential elections

TEHRAN – Iranian people donated 21 percent more blood on Tasua and Ashura (the ninth and tenth days of the mourning month of Muharram, August 7-8 this year) compared to the same days last year, Abbas Sedaqat, a spokesman for the Blood Donation Organization, said on Wednesday.

Some 32,000 units of blood were donated on Tasua and Ashura this year,