The benevolent Saei said Tuesday he will display some 50 medals including 10 world medals, the sole Olympic bronze of the country, and over 30 Asian and international medals.
He added, "The medals belong to the people and I am duty-bound to give them back. It is the least I can do."
Saei said he sells six world golds, one world silver, world army gold and silver medals, 2000
“I hope the interested people buy my collection at reasonable price, raising fund for the quake victims,” IRNA quoted him as saying.
"My fellow countrymen in Bam lost their lives and properties in a flash," regretted the world favorite, adding "the medals are dear to me but I cannot keep them any longer while people of Bam are in dire need of support."
A strong quake with a magnitude of 6.3 degrees on the open-ended Richter scale, the world's most lethal one in at least 10 years, leveled the city and suburban villages before dawn on Friday, at 05:28 local time (0158 GMT), when most people were still sleeping in their mostly mud-brick houses.
Round-the-clock relief efforts were complicated by piles of bodies in the streets, overflowing cemeteries, bitterly cold nights, rain, and aftershocks.
Some 28,000 bodies have so far buried but the death toll was likely to be much higher.
Aid poured in from around the world to help deal with the huge disaster.
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