TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Vice-President and Head of the Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts Organization (CHTHO) Mohammad Ali Najafi in a letter to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization asked the world body to reject Azerbaijans claim about the ancient Iranian game, polo. The Islamic Republic of Iran strongly ...

Iransaid Monday that it would oppose attempts byAzerbaijanto officially register polo with the United Nations as a purely indigenous sport, arguing that polo is an international game and Azerbaijan has no right to claim that it originated there. The official Islamic Republic News Agency quoted Mohammad-Ali Najafi, the head of Irans Cultural Heritage,...