TEHRAN – Japan’s Ambassador to Tehran Tamaki Tsukada was 
welcomed by President of Iran’s National Olympic Committee (NOC) Mahmoud Khosravi Vafa at the NOC headquarters on Thursday.
Expressing his happiness for hosting the Japanese official, Khosravi Vafa said, “We are systematically in contact with the 2026 Asian Games Organizing Committee in Nagoya, but experience has shown that effective coordination and communication with the ambassadors of the host country will lead to better results.”
Tsukada thanked Iran’s NOC for the warm welcome and hospitality and said, “I thoroughly enjoyed my visit to the NOC and National Sports Museum and learned about the history and antiquity of sports in this country. I would like to have more bilateral cooperation with Iran in the field of sports. Although the responsibility for this lies with our National Olympic Committee, personally I want to pursue this work.”