29 Mar 2024
Saturday 5 October 2013 - 18:02
Story Code : 55177

Interior minister urges world to cooperate with Iran in campaign against drugs

Interior minister urges world to cooperate with Iran in campaign against drugs
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran's Interior Minister and Head of the countrys Anti-Narcotics Headquarters Abdolreza Rahmani Fazlicalled on the world states to boost their cooperation with Tehran in the combat on drug trafficking in a bid to decrease and stop transit of narcotics.


"At present, the Islamic Republic of Iran is alone in bearing the heavy responsibility of fighting against the transit of drugs from its origin, Afghanistan, to the world and has paid heavy financial and spiritual costs and a large number of our security and police forces have been martyred and injured to this end," Rahmani Fazli said in a meeting with Algerian Police Chief Major General Abdul-Qani al-Hamid in Tehran on Saturday.

He call on the international community to increase its cooperation with Tehran in a bid to prevent the transit of drugs from Afghanistan to the other parts of the globe. "To get a good result, all the world states should step onto the scene of this campaign and show responsibility and contribute a role in this scene."

The Iranian interior minister cautioned that drug-traffickers are making an increasing use of waterways due to the Iranian police's tight control over land borders, "and we are equipping our operational forces in a more appropriate way in an attempt to have a tougher campaign against this phenomenon".

Iran lies on a major drug route between Afghanistan and Europe, as well as the Persian Gulf states.

Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the Iranian police have lost nearly 4,000 of their personnel in the countrys combat against narcotics.

Iran spends billions of dollars and has lost thousands of its police troops in the war against traffickers.

Every year, Iran burns more than 60 tons of seized narcotics as a symbol of its determination to fight drugs.

Iran has recently established a central database and strengthened police-judiciary cooperation in a new effort to combat organized crime.

By Fars News Agency

 

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