The sports minister's emphasis on breaking the record in the number of drug tests.
Ahmed Dunimali, Minister of Sports and Youth, emphasized the necessity of developing the fight against drugs, and demanded to increase the number of samples and record a new record in this field by the end of 1,405.
According to the report presented at the third session of the Supreme Anti-Doping Council, Iran took 1,080 drug samples from athletes in 2025 and 555 samples in 2026.
Referring to the annual average of 1,000 to 1,100 drug tests in the country, Donimali stressed that this number should increase. He also demanded that the share of women in the sample be increased from 20% to one third of all tests.
At this meeting, it was announced that Iran is among the 50 developed countries in the world in the field of anti-doping in the ranking of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), and the next goal is to upgrade the country's status to subgroup A.