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Iran’s police seize more than five tons of narcotics at Eastern Borders

Business Materials 8 September 2013 17:06 (UTC +04:00)

Azerbaijan, Baku, September 8 /Trend N. Umid /

Iran's police seized more than five tons of narcotics including heroin and opium in country's eastern borders, Mehr news agency reported.

The police seized about four tons of opium and heroin from drug smugglers near Manujan city in Sistan and Baluchestan Province.

According to the report, border police also seized some 1.219 tons of opium during fight against armed drug smugglers on the border between Negur and Jekigur in Sistan and Baluchestan Province.

Two smugglers have been arrested and others escaped, the report said.

Iran lies on a major drug route between Afghanistan and Europe, as well as the Persian Gulf states. The Islamic Republic shares about 900 kilometers of a common border with Afghanistan, through which about 74 percent of opium is smuggled.

According to official estimates, fight against drugs annually cost Iran about $1 billion. The statistics also say that there are about 2 million of drug users in Iran.

It was reported that 500 tons of drugs were seized during the last solar year and 215 tons during the first 5 months of the current solar year (started on March 21).

Every year, Iran burns more than 60 tons of various seized drugs as a symbol of its determination to fight drugs.

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