When Sepahan won the league, the following season some of their games were shown.
This year , all we saw of defending champions ,pas, at ipl were games against pespes and blues.
IRIB ke delesh be hale football va IPL nasokhte. They just want to attract some viewers via football and sports. luong and blue seem to have most fan base , hence better promotion/propagnda possibilty for IRIB.