$4.4m worth of smuggled, expired goods destroyed since March
Financial Tribune – Since March 21, the Organization for Collection and Sales of State-Owned Properties of Iran has destroyed 500 billion rials…
Tag Archives: Smuggling in Iran
Iran saffron exports down due to smuggling, government restrictions: Exporter
Press TV – Iranian exporters of saffron, a highly expensive spice with incredible healing powers, believe that smuggling and government restrictions have…
Intelligence forces dismantle biggest drug smuggling band in southern Iran
MNA – According to the released statement of the Iranian intelligence ministry, the forces identified and dismantled the largest drug smuggling band…
Police seize 189kg of drugs in Yazd
MNA – The chief of the Iranian anti-narcotics police in Yazd said that the police forces seized 189kg of narcotics in Yazd,…
Police seize 1.5 tons of drugs in Iran’s Saravan
MNA – The police forces of the Sistan and Baluchestan province, southeastern Iran, have seized 1,531 kg of illegal drugs. Police Chief…
Pres. Rouhani urges for intensifying efforts against smuggling of goods, forex
MNA – President Rouhani described more effort in fighting goods and currency smuggling essential for improving production conditions in the country, and…
Police Forces should safeguard people’s security on the cyberspace: Ayatollah Khamenei
Khamenei.ir – A group of commanders of Police Forces met with Ayatollah Khamenei—the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution—this afternoon April 28,…
Profiteering, smuggling push Iran to consider ‘electronic’ food stamps
Al Monitor | Saeed Jalili: As part of its strategy to counter US economic sanctions, Iran has effectively granted subsidized foreign currency…
Iran reintroduces fuel cards to combat smuggling
Al-Monitor | Bijan Khajehpour: Smuggling in general and fuel smuggling in particular have continuously undermined the Iranian economy for a long time.…
Smuggling surges as US sanctions hit Iranian rial
Al-Monitor | Bijan Khajehpour: The foreign exchange policies that have emerged in Iran in the aftermath of the sudden devaluation of the…
IRGC to help in war on smuggling
Tasnim – The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, which has been assigned the task of tackling commodity smuggling in the Persian Gulf, will…
Official warns about illegal import from legal channels
MNA – Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, the Secretary of the Guardian Council criticized the officials responsible for economy for what he described smuggling…
Iran moves to stamp out corruption opportunities in customs
Al-Monitor | Bijan Khajehpour: Government officials and investors all agree that Iran needs to improve its business climate to attract the needed investment for…
Iran determined to fight cell phone smuggling: Minister
IFP – Iran’s Minister of Communications and Information Technology Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi says his ministry is determined to fight cell phone…
Iranian presidential candidate urges action against contraband
Tasnim- Mostafa Aqa-Mirsalim, one of the six candidates running for presidency in Iran, stressed the need for plans to curb contraband and…
Goods smuggling hurts domestic production: Presidential candidate
IRNA – Boosting the domestic production is an issue to which the policies of the Economy of Resistance attach importance, a candidate…
Iran’s Police Chief stresses upgrading equipment to combat smuggling
Tasnim – Iran’s Police Chief Brigadier General Hossein Ashtari highlighted the importance of his forces’ efforts to combat smuggling and said the…
Iran customs adopts new tactics to fight smuggling
Financial Tribune – The High Council of Free Zones has given the nod to the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration to…
Certified Iranian firms fall far behind in iPhone sales
Financial Tribune- Nearly 90% of iPhones sold in the market in Iran are smuggled into the country, according to the head of…
Iran’s customs office ranks third in fight against smuggling
IFP- In the latest ranking of the World Customs Organisation’s Centre of Information and Security, Iran was ranked third in the fight…
Rouhani urges fight against smuggling of foreign commodities
Tehran, Aug 28, IRNA – President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday urged fighting smuggling of foreign commodities to Iran. Speaking to the cabinet…
13 luxury cars smuggled into Iran to be crushed in coming days
In an interview with Asriran, Seyyed Abdolmajid Ejtehadi, the head of Iran’s Central Task Force to Combat Smuggling of Commodities and Currency,…
Tehran threatens to ban iPhones unless Apple officially registers in Iran
TEHRAN – In an ultimatum, Iranian officials asked iPhone manufacturer Apple Inc. to either officially register in Iran or have its products…
Smuggling of goods declined 40% in Iran: official
TEHRAN — Primary estimates show a 40 percent decline in the smuggling of gods in Iran over the past two years, Qasem…
Jewelry Producers plagued by smuggling
Director of the Gold and Jewelry Producers and Exporters Union has voiced growing concern over the adverse effects of the illegal import of…
50K smuggled oil products seized in Northwest Iran
TEHRAN, Jan. 27 (Shana) – Manager of the National Iranian Oil Products Distribution Company (NIOPDC) in northwestern Miandoab region said that two…
Iranian police smash 129 smuggling rings in 3 months
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iranian police forces have managed to dismantle 129 rings involved in the smuggling of goods during the first three…
Billion dollar smuggling industry drains Iran’s economy
Habibollah Haghighi, chief of an Iranian task force to combat smuggling, announced that up to $25 billion worth of contraband was smuggled…
Annual smuggling of 1200 trailers of cigarettes in Iran
Tehran, Jan 17, IRNA – Mohamamd Reza Masjedi, Secretary General of Anti-Drug Association said annually 1200 trailers of cigarettes are smuggled in…
UN official praises Iran’s anti-drug efforts
A United Nations official has praised Iran’s efforts to fight against drug trafficking following the arrest of a local smuggling gang, Press…
Five drug smugglers hanged in Shiraz
Shiraz, Fars Province, Jan 14, IRNA – Five armed drug smugglers were hanged in Adelabad Prison here on Tuesday. Fars Judiciary declared…