TEHRAN (Mehr News Agency) -- Iran's Islamic Azad University's (IAU) hired national 96kg freestyle wrestler Alireza Heidari.

Heidari will represent the IAU in the Premiership bouts. He signed an 18,750-dollar contract with the university on August 24.

The wrestler is training for the 2003 world event in New York.

Heidari has won gold, silver, and bronze medals in the world bouts between 1997 and 2002.