Azerbaijan, Baku, April 1 /Trend D. Khatinoglu
Iranian border police discovered two tons of drugs this morning while several people tried to cross the Afghanistan-Iran border in Iran's Sistan-Baluchestan province, Mehr news agency reported.
According to the report, Iranian police confronted the drug dealers and following a shootout, the dealers were forced to flee to Afghanistan.
Deputy Head of Iran's border police, General Ahmad Garavand said the amount of seized drugs in the last two weeks is four times more than was seized during the same period in the last solar year.
Speaking of the smuggled fuel, Garavand said that during the same period last year, the amount of seized fuel increased by approximately 113 per cent.
On March 31, the Iranian parliament's Foreign Policy and National Security spokesman Esmail Kowsari told the country's Young Journalists Club website that fuel smuggling from Iran to neighbouring countries has risen to 10 million litres per day since last year, while around 3000-4000 vehicles are used for smuggling.