{"id":52342,"date":"2019-11-27T14:05:59","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T06:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=52342"},"modified":"2019-11-27T14:11:26","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T06:11:26","slug":"iran-seizes-over-62-tonnes-of-illicit-drugs-in-eight-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=52342","title":{"rendered":"Iran Seizes Over 62 Tonnes Of Illicit Drugs In Eight Months"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TEHRAN, Nov 27 (NNN-TASNIM) &#8211; Iran&#8217;s border security forces, have seized over 62 tonnes of different kinds of illicit drugs, over the past eight months, the commander of Iran&#8217;s Border Police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The seizure of illicit drugs, along Iran&#8217;s border, shows an increase of 59 percent, compared to the same period last year, Qassem Rezaee was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran&#8217;s border police have been carrying out close cooperation with its counterparts in neighbouring countries, such as the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Oman, to fight drug smuggling, Rezaee noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran has long suffered from drug trafficking, given its location at the crossroads of international drug smuggling from Afghanistan, the world&#8217;s top opium producer, to Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the past decades, Iran&#8217;s eastern and southeastern borders have seen deadly clashes between Iranian security forces and armed drug smugglers.&#8211; NNN-TASNIM <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN, Nov 27 (NNN-TASNIM) &#8211; Iran&#8217;s border security forces, have seized over 62 tonnes of different kinds of illicit drugs, over the past eight months, the commander of Iran&#8217;s Border Police said. The seizure of illicit drugs, along Iran&#8217;s border, shows an increase of 59 percent, compared to the same period last year, Qassem Rezaee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":52347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,286,198,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52342"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}