Mehrad Atashi (, born February 25, 1986, in Rey,

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) is an Iranian professional

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player. He currently plays for Chemidor Qom in

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as well as with the Iranian national basketball team, as a

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National team

He was selected to play for

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in 2010 World Championship held in

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. And also was a member of national team in

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.
2011 FIBA Asia Championship

Honours

National team

* Asian Under-18 Championship **Gold medal:

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

Club

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**Gold medal:

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

(Mahram) * West Asian Championship **Gold medal:

(Mahram) * Iranian Super League **Champions:

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

(Sanam),

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

(Mahram)

References

1986 births Living people Iranian men's basketball players Mahram Tehran BC players Shooting guards Basketball players from Tehran Iranian Basketball Super League players Sanam Tehran BC players 21st-century Iranian sportsmen {{Iran-basketball-bio-stub