Iran was crowned Asian freestyle wrestling champion in Bishkek with four gold medals, completing a title sweep after the Greco-Roman team's victory.

Iranian female football players rejected attempts by foreign adversaries to lure them away from their homeland, says parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf.

Iranian women footballers, targeted by a US-orchestrated asylum plot during the Asian Cup in Australia, defeated the pressure campaign by choosing to return home, demonstrating patriotism and love for their homeland.

More than 10,000 Iranian athletes have called on the UN and sports governing bodies to ban US and Israeli teams from all international sporting events.

The captain of the Iranian women’s national football team chooses to return home from Australia, despite a US-engineered asylum offer.

Japanese football icon Keisuke Honda has lost an advertising contract with an American company after publicly expressing his support for Iran amid the US-Israeli military aggression against the Islamic Republic.

The Iranian sports minister says Iran's national football team would not participate in the FIFA World Cup due to the ongoing US aggression against the Islamic Republic.