TEHRAN, June 7 (NNN-IRNA) – The border guards commander of Iran’s Police, announced that, his forces seized 2,275 kg of different kinds of illicit drugs, in the southeastern Sistan and Baluchestan province.
Brigadier-General Ahmad Ali Goudarzi, said that, in the “successful” operation, police seized two vehicles in which 2,200 kg of opium and 75 kg of hashish were placed.
The report did not mention the time of the operation.
Iran has being suffering from drug trafficking, given its location at the crossroads of international drug smuggling from Afghanistan, the world’s top opium producer, to Europe.
Over the past few decades, Iran’s eastern and south-eastern borders have seen deadly clashes between Iranian security forces and armed drug smugglers.– NNN-IRNA
