TEHRAN – The 2024/25 Iran’s Persian Gulf Pro League (PGPL) is set to use Video Assistant Referee (VAR) in the next season.

Iranian football officials had previously announced that several times they would use VAR but failed to live up to their promise.

Now, Iran's Ministry of Sport and Youth Affairs Kioumars Hashemi has urged the football federation to start the next season with VAR.  

The system was used at the 2018 World Cup for the first time.