Iranian weightlifter Kianoush Rostami won the gold medal in the men’s 85-kg category at the Rio 2016 Olympics Games on August 12, 2016.
Kianoush Rostami won Iran’s first medal of the Rio 2016 Olympics Games in the men’s 85-kilogram category and broke his own world record after lifting a total of 396 kilograms.
Rostami, 25, a bronze medalist in the same category in London four years ago, made 217kg with his final clean and jerk for a total of 396kg, beating his world record by one kilogram.
China’s Tian Tao claimed silver on 395kg while Romanian Gabriel Sincraian took bronze with a lift of 390 kilograms.
Mohammad Eslami, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, announced that the construction…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet has voted unanimously to close Al Jazeera’s operations in…
Pro-Palestinian activists have launched encampments at more than 70 campuses to bring attention to Israel’s…
Iran’s president Ebrahim Raisi says the country has been promoted to the top of the…
Nearly four in 10 Americans have stated that the United States is doing too much…
Hundreds of Israelis demonstrated Saturday in Rehovot near Tel Aviv to demand the release of…