About 1,200 kilograms of opium have been confiscated from drug traffickers in the border city of Khash in the southeastern province of Sistan Baluchestan in Iran, a local police commander announced on Saturday, MNA reported.
Hamid Fahimi Rad, the province's police chief, said the drugs were confiscated by security and intelligence forces in a surveillance operation on the traffickers' car.
About 1095 kilograms of opium, 50 kilograms of morphine and 150 kilograms of hashish were found in the operation, Fahimi Rad explained.