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.
1.2 tons of drugs seized in southeast Iran
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, a local police commander announced on Saturday.
