Hojjat-ul-Islam Hassan Khomeini made remarks during a recent meeting held with the members of the board of directors and a group of athletes of the country's student sports federation.
“Sports has been one of the most important and perhaps can play the most significant role in repairing of cultural damages, and with sports, cultural damage can be healed.”
The reputed scholar also stressed the need of promoting exercise and sports at very primary levels.
“If our student sports grow, the country's sports will grow.”
“We have not always been successful in promoting sports at the level of young people, and our football team for youth has not been to the Olympics for many years.”
“It was clear that the sports from at primary levels were not given much importance and we could have something to say in this regard.”
“It means that the basics of sports or sports at very primary level are either not considered too important, or if they are, they are not considered in a regular way, orderly and scientific manner.”
Elsewhere in his remarks, Seyyed Hassan Khomeini said that there was never a religious obstacle for women's sports in the country.
It is worthy to mention that the Iranian women have won international medals on Olympic levels in recent years.