It quoted Abbas Sabetian, head of he Alpine Club of Iran, as saying one member of the Iranian team in an ice climbing event in France left the team the day after arriving in France and never returned. He did not give the defector’s name. In the previous three months, Radio Farda said, Payam Moradi, a member of Iran’s karate team, defected in France, Vahid Sarlak, a judo team member, defected in Germany, fellow judoka Ehsan Rajabi, requested asylum in the United States, and fencer Mohammad-Hassan Ebrahimi, defected in France.
