The Iranian national junior basketball team has�crushed Indonesia at the group stage of the 2016 FIBA�Asia Under-18 Championship, and breezed past the Southeast Asian�squad by a nearly three-fold lead.

The young Iranian athletes conquered their Indonesian counterparts 106-40 in their Group B opener of the event staged at Azadi Sports Complex, western Tehran, on Friday evening.

The Iranian men�s junior basketball team is slated to face Kazakhstan at 6:00�p.m. local time (1330 GMT) on Saturday.

The�Iranian players will face counterparts from Japan, South Korea and Lebanon in their third to fifth encounters.

The�2016�FIBA Asia Under-18 Championship, which marks the 24th edition of the�continental sports event, started in the Iranian capital on July 22, and will run through July 31.

The Islamic Republic of Iran is drawn�in Group B of the preliminary round of the sports event, and has joined Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Lebanon and South Korea.

Group A consists of China, Chinese Taipei, India, Iraq, the Philippines and Thailand.

The teams placed 1st, 2nd, 3rd�and 4th�in each group will qualify directly for the quarterfinal round.

By Press TV