Team Melli will play Saudi Arabia and Syria on November 28 and 30 in Group E in Doha.

“The training camp for the FIBA Asia Cup qualification will start on November 13. The Iran basketball league will begin on November 5 and the national team’s players will participate in the training camp eight days after the start of the domestic league,” Iran basketball team sporting director Masoud Ghasemi said.

Iran sits top of the group with four points, followed by Syria (three points), Saudi Arabia (three points) and Qatar (two points).

From the 24 teams participating in the Asia Cup Qualifiers, 16 will advance to play in the Asia Cup in 2021

Armin Hadipour in the -58kg and Mirhashem Hosseini in the -68kg, who have already booked their places in the Tokyo Olympic Games, are attending the camp with two other national team athletes Sajjad Mardani and Amirhossein Bakhshi.

Taekwondo athletes have passed coronavirus screenings before entering the training camp.

Iran’s Para taekwondo athletes Mehdi Pourahnama and Asghar Azizi, who have qualified for the Tokyo Paralympics, are also taking part in training camp.

Iran’s taekwondo training camp was canceled earlier this year due to COVID-19 pandemic. Now, the athletes have started their trainings under the supervision of Fariborz Asgari and Payam Khanlarkhani as head coaches.

Iran taekwondo federation obtained the permission from the National Task Force for Fighting Coronavirus to hold the training camps.