The unveiling ceremony of the Iranian Sports Oral History Achievements was held at the National Olympic Academy in the presence of Dr. Salehi Amiri, President of the National Olympic Committee.
Iran NOC; Tehran: At the
beginning of the ceremony, Dr. Salehi Amiri, President of the National Olympic
Committee, stated: “Hopefully we succeeded in hosting honorable people in this
sacred space who have a great right in Iran. For the first time in the history
of Iranian Sports we unveil a new action which proves that Iranian sport has a
history. It should have started a century ago and reached its destination
today, but with all these concerns, we are happy that today is the beginning of
this great work”. Dr. Salehi Amiri emphasized: "The movement that started
is planned and strategic, and all the efforts of the National Olympic and
Paralympic Committees and federations were all aimed at answering the question
of what the history of Iranian sports and what the origin of Iranian sports are”.
At the end of the ceremony, while
unveiling the achievements of Iranian Sports Oral History projects, members of
the policy-making council of Iranian oral history (Dr. Nasrollah Sajjadi, Dr.
Gharakhanlou, Dr. Shahrzad Kordbacheh, Mohammad Tabe, Gholamreza Azizi, Dr.
Hossein Sabti, Dr. Abdolhamid Ahmadi, Dr. Gholamhossein Shabani, Dr. Habibollah
Esmaili, Mahmoud Abdollahi, Maryam Faridar, Sara Mehrinpour,) Writers, Veterans
(Dr. Mahin Farhadizad, Ms. Tahereh Taherian, Mohammad Khadem Haghighat, Albert
Kouchoui, Manouchehr Zandi, Hassan Habibi, Hossein Kalani, Nader Latifi ,
Faramarz Zeli) and the holders of 9 titles of books on the oral history of
Iranian sports were honored and appreciated.