The largest seizure of Europe-bound heroin in decades. Irans police recovered two tons of Class A drugs on New Years Eve on the countrys border with Afghanistan. The culmination of a two-month investigation, Irans anti-narcotics police chief says the Class A drugs are worth millions of dollars in the European market.The police chief says Irans anti-narcotics police are committed to tackling serious and organized crime which has an impact on the international community. He says the police will continue to make Irans borders with Afghanistan and Pakistan, the main supply and transit routes to Europe, as hostile an environment as possible for those involved in the sale, transit or supply of controlled drugs.
Iran, as the first link in the long and lucrative smuggling chain, has for decades fought a lonely battle against drugs along its volatile southeast, where its border meets those of Afghanistan and Pakistan. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, despite the high human costs, Iran is now netting eight times more opium and three times more heroin than all the other countries in the world combined.
By Press TV
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