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The Iran V. US basketball game at the 2010 FIBA World Championship game held in Istanbul this week has created a lot of hype, but the one thing we walked away with from the well-paced game is: Friendliness! Continue Reading

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Shown cutting the net last month after their 61-55 win over Illinois State in a NCAA college basketball game  in Cedar Falls, Iowa, the newly-minted Northern Iowa college basketball star and good-Persian-boy, Ali Farokhmanesh, had a pivotal scoring hand in placing his team in the “Sweet 16″ lineup.

The “haymaker/heartbreaker” is just one of the super-risky moves Farokhmanesh bravely used that led to his team beating out a ranked team like Kansas: An event that ESPN’s Pat Forde says should go down in NCAA tournament history as “one of the all-time no-no-YES! jump shots.”

In the end, Farokhmanesh and his team lost to Michigan State by a mere 7 points but we have a feeling this is just a glimpse of what’s to come for this particular Ali–whose dad also happens to lead a life in sports as a volleyball coach–and his “BK” skills.

“My teammates just call me Stroke sometimes. Or a lot of people just call me Muhammad.” Ali told an interviewer on March 23, 2010.

Since Hamed Haddadi’s is the first Iranian professional basketball player, will Farokhmanesh be the first Iranian-American professional basketball player?

We think so!

Which team will scoop him up?

Who cares?!

We’ll root for any team this Persian athlete is on! (Cue live basketball pre-game hype-music.)

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As international support for the people of Iran continues to increase every minute on an array of platforms – online, fashion runways, music concerts, and world rallies – one of the world’s biggest soccer stars Francesco Totti joins the pack.

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The Guardian is reporting that  Iranian soccer stars Ali Karimi, Mehdi Mahdavikia,  Hosein Ka’abi, and Vahid Hashemian have been “retired” from soccer after wearing green wristbands during their world-qualifier match against South Korea last week.

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UAE has never beaten Iran in an international soccer match.

And so the trend continues.

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What a cutie!

Watch six-year old Iranian football/soccer-guru, Mohammad Parsa share his thoughts on Iranian, and world, soccer.

So, we may have gotten an ulcer from the most recent 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifier-game the Iranian national team played against Saudi Arabia , but we also got ourselves a tooth ache!

Persian women aren’t the only hotties around. Check out our favorite and your sexy-as-sin Iranian soccer players: (clockwise) Zandi, Teymourian, Nekounam, Kazemian, Madanchi,  Rahmati, and Hosseini.

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Our favorite (and only) Iranian NBA member, the Persian-baller that is Hamed Haddadi has been recalled by the Memphis Grizzlies.

After a brief stint with the Dakota Wizards of the NBA Development League, our Hamed is once again on the road to scoring more points for the Memphis Grizzlies.

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