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Iranian women wrestlers have international and domestic records and honors. Iran has won
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as president in 1997, he considered wrestling as a possible way to reopen diplomatic relations between Iran and U.S, after nearly two decades. This was an
Iranian take on Nixon-era
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promotion that operates in Iran is the Iran
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