According to IRNA, while the World Youth Boxing Championship 2022 will be held from November 24th to December 5th, hosted by Spain and in the city of Alicante, today (Monday – November 16th) the request of our country’s national team members to participate in these competitions It was not accepted due to the sabotage of the Spanish embassy.
Referring to this issue, Hossein Thori, the head of the Boxing Federation, said: We had taken the necessary measures to issue visas for a long time in view of the invitation to participate in the World Youth Championships, but unfortunately, today, due to the disruption of the Spanish Embassy, the request for visas of all the members of the youth team and The technical staff was rejected. This is despite the fact that we had taken all the necessary measures in this regard at the appointed time, and had even made reservations for the hotel and the provision of Riyal and foreign exchange resources.
He added: “Due to the delay in issuing visas, we also followed up on this matter from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, however, today, without any reason, the visa requests of the members of our country’s team to participate in the tournament were rejected.”
Thori emphasized: We have raised this matter in writing with the World Boxing Federation and we have also informed the Spanish Embassy of our protest. We will apply again in the remaining time, and I hope that this time the visas of our country’s nationals will be issued.