Iran's anti-drug police squads have clamped down on 15 major networks of drug producers and dealers since the beginning of the current Iranian year (March 21), a senior police chief announced on Saturday, Fars News reported.
Commander of the anti-narcotics squad of Iran's Law Enforcement Police General Ali Moayyedi told reporters that the number shows a 140% increase compared with the past.
He further warned of the police's tough confrontation with drug producers, specially those involved in networked drug production and trade.
Moayyedi said police have worked out detailed plans to seriously combat synthetic drugs producers in a systematic manner and through intense intelligence operations.
Synthetic drugs have recently been smuggled and distributed in Iran by drug-traffickers who seek to change addiction behaviors in the country and redirect addicts' tendency from conventional drugs, such as opium, heroin and hashish, to those narcotics mostly prevalent in the West, like cocaine, crack, crystal meth and LSD.
The anti-drug squads of the Iranian Law Enforcement Police have intensified their countrywide campaign against drug-trafficking through staging long-term systematic operations for the last two years.
The Iranian anti-narcotic police have always staged periodic, but short-term, operations against drug traffickers and dealers, but the latest reports - which among others indicate an improved and systematic dissemination of information - reveal that the world's most forefront and dedicated anti-narcotic force (as UN drug-campaign assessments put it) have embarked on a long-term countrywide plan to intensify the crack down on the drug trade since the beginning of the last Iranian year (started on March 20, 2010).
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