TEHRAN, Oct.29 (Mehr News Agency) -- Two-time Olympic gold medalist Hossein Rezazadeh is set to replace Bahram Afsharzadeh in Iran's Weightlifting Federation.

Afsharzadeh has been named as the secretary-general of Iran's National Olympic Committee (NOC) on Tuesday and former Iran lifter is going to be head of the federation.

"Why not? Who is better than me? I have good knowledge of Iran's weightlifting. Everybody likes me. Meanwhile the president of the world federation Tamas Ajan has a good relationship with me. Hopefully, I will help Iran's weightlifting but firstly I have to know what the officials think." Said Rezazadeh.

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