TEHRAN -- The official ambassador of the Doha 2006 Torch Relay, Qatar’s Prince of the State Sheikh Joaan Bin Hamad Al-Thani, here Thursday said Iran has been the best organizer so far.

The ambassador, who carried the torch in a lantern from the relay plane, arrived in Mashhad, the capital of northeastern Khorassan Razavi Province, Monday afternoon.

According to the schedule, the flame was Wednesday flown to Isfahan where 119 people, including sportsmen, artists, war veterans, and six Qatari athletes from Menar Jonban monument to the "Unknown Martyrs Graveyard" in the mountainous south of the 2006 cultural capital of the Islamic world.

Nasrollah Sajjadi, the head of Iranian teams in Qatar, was the first official who carried the torch in the Tochal ski resort in northern Tehran and the next torchbearers were be the four-time world and twice Olympic +105 kg weightlifting gold medalist Hossein Rezazadeh, legendary keeper Ahmad-Reza Abedzadeh, world taekwondo champion Hadi Saii, and national and Persepolis skipper Mohammad Panj'ali, and the five famous wrestlers Mohammad-Ebrahim Seifpur, Reza Sukhteh-Saraii, Alireza Heidari, Abbas Jadidi, and Hamid Surian.

Iran’s Physical Education Organization head Mohammad Aliabadi expressed his satisfaction with the organizing of the prestigious ceremony.

He voiced his country’s readiness to help Qatar hold the Asian event as well as possible.

The torch, which is wind-resistant at speeds of up to 60 kilometers an hour, symbolizes the desire to merge and light anew the spirit of competition and friendship throughout Asia, organizers said.

It has traveled the furthest in its history this year -- 50,000 kilometers and through 15 countries across the region.

After the Tehran relay, the flame was flown to Salalah, Muscat, and will be later headed for Sohar in Oman; Hatta, Sharjah, Dubai, and Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates; Kuwait City, Manama (Bahrain) and back to Doha for the kickoff of the Games that will be held from December 1-15.