Sports ministry officials announced the closure of over 100 sports centers in Mashhad as part of an effort to stamp out the sale of illegal performance enhancement drugs.
Reza Golduzian, the head of the medical sports board in Khorasan Razavi Province, told the Islamic Republic News Agency in Mashhad sports clubs – many of which did not have a valid license to operate – were responsible for the expansion of illegal “food supplements” market. He announced that the Ministry of Sports had begun efforts to control the industry at the end of 2014, leading to the recent closures.
“There are 1,300 sport clubs active in 30 different fields of sports in the city of Mashhad,” said Golduzia. “Only 700 of them have official permission. Only legal clubs have the necessary medical approval. Selling food supplements and performance-enhancing drugs takes place only in illegal clubs.”
In late April, American world-champion bodybuilder and eight-time winner of the Mr. Olympia international competition Ronnie Coleman visited Iran to speak to Iran’s growing number of bodybuilding enthusiasts about his training – and his own range of supplements. The seminars were later canceled after it emerged that some women had signed up to take part in the event.
Golduzian said the public should be aware that “Sport clubs are under constant supervision of the Ministry of Sport and Youth, the University of Medical Sciences and the supervising department of the police forces. If they violate laws, they first receive a warning and then are closed down.”
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