In the men’s 105kg event, Hashemi came out on top with 404kg after winning the snatch with 183kg and finishing third in the clean and jerk with 221kg.

Hashemi became the first world champion from his country in the category.

Mohammadreza Barari is Iran’s only other medalist in the men’s 105kg, claiming bronze in the clean and jerk in 2013.

Latvian Arturs Plesnieks won the silver medal with 402kg and bronze medal went to Uzbekistan’s Ivan Efremov with 399kg.

Sohrab Moradi had already won Iran’s first gold medal in the 94kg.

He broke clean and jerk and overall world records on his way to claiming a hat-trick of gold medals on day six of the competition underway in Anaheim, California, USA.

Having already sealed his clean sweep of the gold medals with his first clean and jerk lift of 220kg, the 29-year-old Olympic champion successfully managed 233kg to beat the previous global mark of 232kg held by Poland’s Szymon Kolecki.

He also broke his own overall world record of 413kg after finishing on 417kg.

Moradi had earlier won the snatch with 184kg on what was a memorable day for the Iranian.

The overall silver medalist was Lithuania’s Aurimas Didzbalis with 388kg.

Iran’s Seyed Ayoob Mousavijarahi won the bronze medal with 385kg.