Iran competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place during the summer of 2020, the Games were postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the nation's debut in 1948, Iranian athletes have attended every edition of the Summer Olympic Games, with the exception of the 1980 and 1984 which they boycotted.

Sara Bahmanyar is an Iranian karateka. She won one of the bronze medals in the women's kumite 50 kg event at the 2018 World Karate Championships held in Madrid, Spain.