Veteran Iranian basketball player, actor passes away at 45
Veteran Iranian basketball player and actor Iraj Khedri has passed away after suffering from a spinal cord injury for more than two decades.
He died at Imam Hossein Medical and Educational Center in southern Tehran late on Saturday.
Khedri was born in the city of Kermanshah, located 525 kilometers (326 miles) west of the Iranian capital, in 1971, and started professional basketball in late 1980s.
He joined the national Iranian junior and senior basket ball teams years later, before skidding on the court during an Iranian Basketball Super League fixture between Fajr Sepah and Mashahd basketball clubs back in 1998, and sustaining a grave spinal cord injury.
Khedri’s situation deteriorated afterward and the basketball player failed to rehabilitate.
Prior to the career-ending spinal cord injury, Khedri delivered an outstanding performance in a movie called “Dian Bakh.” The film is about the miseries of an Azeri-speaking man suffering from an obscure disease and directed by Farhad Pour-A’zam in 1993.
He was immediately selected for a cast in the movie “Demrel,” where he acted as a boxer. Khedri later acted in “I Love the Earth” directed by Abolhassan Davoudi and screened in 1994.
The movie is about a taxi driver named Khosrow, who bumps into a space alien called Khipet all by chance. Khipet’s awkward and impulsive acts lead to numerous troubles for Khosrow.
Khosrow is trying to find the reason behind Khipet’s presence on Earth, when a female alien shows up and tells him that Khipet has been forced into exile.
Khedri also acted in “O+” and “Khosh Gheyrat” TV series directed by Ali Shah-Hatami, as well as the comedy show “Happy Hour.”
Khedri, whose wife suffers from multiple sclerosis (MS), is survived by his 10-year-old son Amir Ali and five-year-old daughter Fatima.
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