Marked for Shahriar Taremi
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match17 Oct 2026
A 2-goal lead gone for Rah Ahan
It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. Esteghlal Ahvaz kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Rah Ahan will be asked about the last half hour all week.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Karim Rezaeian was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match17 Oct 2026
Beaten 2‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Nobody could get near Ali Eslami
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Shahriar Taremi, and the manager let it.
Loan watch19 Oct 2026
“I watch every Rah Ahan game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Saba runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market12 Oct 2026
“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 The request is on a desk at Rah Ahan, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match10 Oct 2026
Whatever happens, Rah Ahan do not lose
8 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad12 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Rah Ahan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Rah Ahan training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ali Nekounam is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Vouria Jahanbakhsh, and the manager let it.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Shahriar Taremi asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Upbeat
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 32. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Up for the corner, and Shahriar Taremi delivers — 7.58
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Shahriar Taremi scored, was marked 7.58, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A goal and an assist for Kaveh Nekounam — 7.91
Involvement in 2 goals, from a player who spent the ninety minutes doing the thing a manager actually wants: being where the ball was going to end up. 7.91 beside his name.
Squad17 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Rah Ahan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Sardar Noorafkan falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Majid Taremi, and the manager let it.
Match15 Aug 2026
2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Market17 Aug 2026
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Ashkan Yazdani may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.