The Rah Ahan Herald
Match5 Sep 2026
Cup progress for Rah Ahan
A 1‑3 win over Zob Ahan, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Match2 Sep 2026
Rah Ahan through in the cup
A 3‑2 win over Zob Ahan, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
A brace, and Pejman Jahanbakhsh takes the afternoon — 8.59
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Pejman Jahanbakhsh provided it, and the 8.59 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad7 Sep 2026
6 saves: Kaveh Moharrami was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Market7 Sep 2026
Sardar Cheshmi puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Rah Ahan, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Real improvement from Facundo Insfrán at Rah Ahan
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Facundo Insfrán is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 9 in, 7 out at Rah Ahan
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 9 arrived, 7 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Door shut on Daniel Pedrozo
Rah Ahan asked and Al Wasl said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match5 Sep 2026
Rah Ahan keep winning on the road
3 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.
In brief
- Player ratings Shahriar Dejagah was on a different afternoon to everybody else
- The dugout No hiding place for Alireza Ebrahimi
- Transfer targets Deadline beats Rah Ahan to Mehdi Khoshbakht