Baku, Azerbaijan, Mar. 22
By Fatih Karimov – Trend:
Iran’s police seized over 1,200 kilograms of drugs including hashish and heroin from smugglers in the city of Eslamshahr in the central province of Tehran, the police chief in western part of Tehran, General Mohsen Khancharli, said.
The drugs were smuggled through the country’s eastern borders, YJC news agency reported March 22.
The security forces seized 1,160 kilograms of hashish and 76.4 kilograms of heroin from the smugglers, Khancharli said.
Six smugglers were arrested in police operations, he added.
Iran is situated on a major drug route between Afghanistan and Europe, as well as the Persian Gulf states. The Islamic Republic shares about 900 kilometers of common border with Afghanistan, over which 74 percent of opium is smuggled.
The fight against drug trafficking annually costs Iran about $1 billion, according to the official estimates.
According to statistics, there are about two million drug users in Iran.