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USA Today
14-07-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
USC football countdown to kickoff—Andre Heidari in focus
The countdown to USC's 2025 football season is officially on! The Trojans kick off their new campaign 48 days from today. You need something to help you while away the days and hours in the spring and summer. This is one way to do so. In this new series, countdown to kickoff, we will be counting down the days by highlighting a notable Trojan who wore each number. Today, we look at former USC kicker Andre Heidari. Position: Kicker Years played at USC: 2011-2014 Career highlights: Heidari arrived at USC in 2011 and won the starting kicker job as a true freshman. He would hold down that role for the next four years. Heidari's best statistical season came his freshman year, when he was named first-team All-Pac-12 after converting on 88.2% of his field goal attempts. Heidari is best remembered, however, for his game-winning field goals against Stanford in 2013 and 2014. In 2013 at the Coliseum, he hit a go-ahead 47-yarder with 19 seconds remaining to help the Trojans knock off the No. 4 Cardinal 20-17. The following year up on the Farm, he drilled a 53-yarder with 2:30 remaining, propelling USC to a victory in a top-15 matchup. After USC: Heidari was not selected in the 2015 NFL Draft. After a brief career in the Arena Football League, he has worked in the recruiting industry, helping high school football players to get noticed by schools.
Saba Yemen
18-06-2025
- Politics
- Saba Yemen
Iran: Fourth Zionist Drone Downed in Qom Skies
Tehran – Saba: The spokesman for the Crisis Management Department in Qom Province, Morteza Heidari, announced that air defenses shot down a Zionist drone in the Kahk area near the village of Khaveh, after it was detected. Tasnim News Agency quoted Heidari as confirming that the armed and security forces in Qom Province are making strenuous efforts to confront the Zionist aggression and achieve security and victory over the child killers. Whatsapp Telegram Email Print
Saba Yemen
13-06-2025
- Politics
- Saba Yemen
Tehran announces downing of Zionist drone in Qom
Tehran – Saba: Spokesman for the Crisis Management Committee in Qom Province Morteza Heidari announced Friday evening that the Iranian air defense successfully shot down a drone belonging to the Zionist entity after it violated the airspace over the holy city of Qom. Heidari explained in a statement to the Iranian Tasnim News Agency that a unit stationed within the Iranian air defense system was able, moments ago, to detect, track, and shoot down a hostile drone belonging to the Zionist entity that had violated the city's airspace. Heidari praised the "vigilance and preparedness of the Iranian armed forces," noting that this achievement reflects the armed forces' complete control over the airspace and the defense of the security of Qom Province. Whatsapp Telegram Email
Al Manar
13-03-2025
- Politics
- Al Manar
Iranian Army's Ground Forces Fully Ready to Respond to Any Threat: Commander
Iran's Army Ground Force Commander Brigadier General Kiumars Heidari says his forces have drawn up all the necessary plans and stand ready to respond to any threat against the country. Speaking to IRNA on Thursday, Heidari said the Iranian Army Ground Force is pursuing Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei's order to maintain its constant readiness to be able to respond to any threat. He added that 11 brigades of the Army Ground Force have been stationed along the borders to establish sustainable security in the country. He emphasized that Iran has always been facing threats but the Armed Forces' constant readiness has repelled them, which he called a realization of deterrence. 'Any enemy that foolishly thinks of attacking our country will regret it and retract its plan when it faces the combat readiness of the Ground Force,' Heidari said. During a meeting in Tehran on Wednesday, Anwar Gargash, diplomatic advisor to the president of the United Arab Emirates, submitted a letter from US President Donald Trump to Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi. The contents of Trump's letter, though, remain undisclosed. Trump himself claimed in an interview with Fox Business published on March 7 that he had sent a letter to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei, offering talks toward a deal on Iran's nuclear program, but warned that the alternative was a military intervention. Ayatollah Khamenei said on Wednesday that the call by the US president for negotiations with Iran is nothing but an attempt to 'deceive the world public opinion' and portray the Islamic Republic as the party not willing to give diplomacy another chance. Elsewhere in his remarks, Heidari said his forces hold military exercises at different times throughout the year based on the country's conditions. He added that the Ground Force staged three major maneuvers in the eastern and western parts of the country in two months and has made plans to hold new drills in the next Iranian calendar year based on new methods to react to new threats. 'Next year will be a year of increasing our defensive and deterrence capabilities as well as a year for conducting modern exercises based on new approaches,' the Iranian commander emphasized.
