During the 27th General Assembly of the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC), officials from Iran National Olympic Committee met and discussed with the President of the World Weightlifting Federation.
Iran NOC; Tehran: Mahmoud
Khosravi Vafa and Seyed Manaf Hashemi, the President and Secretary General of
the National Olympic Committee, who represented in Portugal to attend the 27th ANOC
General Assembly met and discussed with the President of the International
Weightlifting Federation (IWF), Mohammad Jalood. In this meeting, Mohammad Jalood,
President of the International Weightlifting Federation, referred to the
position of Iranian weightlifting in the world and Asia, which has always been
respectable and has made good progress, and emphasized the continued support of
the international governing body for Iranian weightlifting. He also announced
the donation of a number of weightlifting equipment to the Iranian
Weightlifting Federation in order to support this discipline in Iran. In the
following, Mahmoud Khosravi Vafa, the President of the National Olympic
Committee, also thanked the International Weightlifting Federation for its
support to Iran, officially invited Mohammad Jalood to Iran and it was decided
to send an invitation to him after his return. The 27th ANOC General Assembly was
held in Cascais, Portugal.