Tasnim - Irans permanent representative to international organizations in Vienna cautioned that the policy of certain countries to decriminalize and legalize drug use is undermining international anti-narcotics efforts. Any approach with the purpose of decriminalizing and legalizing certain types of drugs would undermine international efforts to ...

Security forces in Lebanon interrogate a Saudi prince on charges of carrying drugs on his private plane, Lebanese media say. Abd al-Muhsen bin Walid bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud was detained on Monday at the Rafik Hariri International Airport in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, while in possession of 24 bags and eight suitcases full of narcotics. The ...

Selling poppies is easier than selling diamonds and gold in Afghanistan, and just as valuable, an official in the Afghan Ministry of Public Health told me in 2011. The [police] is corrupt, the farmer is poor, and the addict always buys. He was right. The failure of international forces in Afghanistan to curb the narcotics trade presents one of the ...

Irannews headlines on Sunday includedemonstration of Afghansover the alleged killing of Afghan immigrants in front ofIranian Consulate in Herat, Iran police seizingover 11 tons of narcotics after fierce clashes with drug traffickers, releasing of one of the 48 Iranian hostages in Syria,Iranian Air ForceDeputy Commander remarks overIRIAF manufacturing ...