Tag Archives: anti-narcotics efforts
MNA – Iran’s Foreign Ministry’s Director-General for consular affairs criticized the international community’s failure to cooperate with Iran for fighting against human…
MNA – Islamic Republic of Iran and Russian Federation signed a joint three-year contract on Thursday in the field of countering narcotics.…
IRNA – Iran’s envoy to Vienna-based international bodies stressed the importance of being committed to confronting illegal drugs. Kazem Gharibabadi made the…
Al-Monitor- Iran’s new law for combating drugs will be implemented beginning Nov. 14. The law — passed by the Reformist majority parliament and approved by…
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran held a ceremony in Tehran to mark the upcoming International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, which…
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Ministers from Iran and Afghanistan agreed on Thursday to launch a joint pilot scheme on alternative means of livelihood…
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Anti-narcotics units of Iran’s Police in the central province of Yazd seized 652 kg of illicit drugs in a…
More than 70 lawmakers signed a petition earlier this month proposing the abolition of the death penalty in unorganized drug trafficking crimes.…
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran’s anti-narcotics police forces managed to seize more than 2.5 tons of illicit drugs in three separate operations against…
TEHRAN (FNA)- Commander of the anti-narcotics squad of Iran’s Law Enforcement Police General Ali Moayyedi announced that over half of the illicit…
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – In a single operation carried out near Tehran on Sunday, Iran’s police managed to capture two major drug smugglers…
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran’s anti-narcotics police chief announced that his forces have managed to seize 700 kilograms of illicit drugs in the…
Tehran, June 27, IRNA – President Hassan Rouhani in a message on the occasion of World Drug Day said the day provides…
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran’s anti-narcotics police chief said Wednesday that the ringleader of an international drug trafficking gang has been captured in…
Zahedan, Sistan-Balouchestan Prov., June 23, IRNA – Commander of the Border Guard police in Sistan-Baluchestan Province Brigadier General Rahambakhsh Habibi said on…
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani called on world countries, particularly the European states that are attractive destinations for narcotics, to…
An official with Iran Drug Control Headquarters said Monday that as much as 100 tons of narcotics, including traditional, industrial and psychedelic…
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran’s Anti-Narcotics Police Chief announced on Thursday that his forces have confiscated a large number of weapons from drug…
Bandar Abbas, May 4, IRNA – Deputy Commander of Minab police force said on Monday that during the past 24 hours 328,380…
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – An informed source at Iran’s intelligence ministry announced on Monday that the country’s security forces have managed to identify…
TEHRAN (FNA)- The drug combat squads of the country’s Law Enforcement Force have seized more than 490,000 kilograms of illicit drugs in…
TEHRAN (FNA)- Provincial police authorities announced on Tuesday that more than 80 drug gangs have been busted in the Western Iranian province…
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iranian law enforcement forces have smashed 85 rings involved in drug-trafficking activities west of Tehran province, and seized over…
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s drug combat squads have seized more than 5,000 kilograms of illicit drugs in three separate operations in the Southeastern…
TEHRAN (FNA)- The drug combat squads of Iran’s Law Enforcement Police have seized more than 22 tons of illicit drugs across the…
Iran’s Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli said Saturday political life in the Islamic Republic was tainted by “dirty money”, including from drugs,…
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran’s anti-narcotics police forces have seized 445 tons of different types of illicit drugs in the country over the…
Criticizing the lack of support from the international community, Rahmani Fazli said that the world must be wary of the growing threat…
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s drug combat squads have seized more than 14,000 kilograms of illicit drugs in the city of Tehran in the…
Zahedan, Feb 1, IRNA – Some 997 kilograms of opium was seized in two separate operations in of Sistan-Baluchestan province, Provincial Commander…
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s drug combat squads have seized more than 4,500 kilograms of illicit drugs in the Western province of Hamedan in…
Tehran, Jan 17, IRNA – Mohamamd Reza Masjedi, Secretary General of Anti-Drug Association said annually 1200 trailers of cigarettes are smuggled in…
A senior Iranian official says the country’s war on drugs has imposed enormous costs and a huge loss of life on the…
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Head of Iran’s UN mission called for stronger international support for a joint initiative developed by Iran, Afghanistan and…
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The Iranian anti-drug police forces in the central province of Yazd have seized 786kg of opium in a single…
Zahedan, Sistan-Baluchestan Prov, Dec 11, IRNA – Some 2.3 tons of drugs were confiscated by the anti-drug squads in this southeastern province,…
TEHRAN (ISNA)- Italy called for bilateral cooperation with Iran in fighting drug trafficking and battling terrorism. “Fighting drug smuggling and terrorism are…
As many as 153 sachets of narcotics weighing 1.7 kilograms have been found in the stomach of a 20-year-old man in a…
Zahedan, Nov 9, IRNA – 1,700 metric tons of hashish was seized from drug traffickers in Mir Java border region of Iran’s…
The impact of drug production, trafficking and abuse in Iran is considerable. Of primary concern are opiates – including opium and heroin…