FIBA World Cup Asian qualifiers:
Iran heads to Lebanon for Iraq double-header
The Iranian men’s basketball team departed for Lebanon on Thursday ahead of their upcoming double-header against Iraq in the first round of the FIBA World Cup Asian qualifiers.
The two teams will kick off their campaign in Group C – which also features Jordan and Syria – on Thursday, before facing each other again in Zouk Mikael three days later.
Arsalan Kazemi, Arman Zanganeh, Navid Rezaeifar, Sina Vahedi, Mobin Sheikhi, Matin Aqajanpour, Mahdi Jafari, Jalal Aqamiri, Mohammad-Mahdi Heidari, Hassan Aliakbari, Amirhossein Azari, Behnam Yakhchali, Salar Monji, and Mohammad Amini have been named to the Iranian 14-man roster by Greek head coach Sotiris Manolopoulos.
Iran will enter the qualifiers fresh off an impressive third-place finish at the 2025 FIBA Asian Cup in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in August.