Zahedan, Jan 13, IRNA -- Some 1,460 kilograms of opium were confiscated in Saravan borders, commander of Sistan-Baluchestan Borderguards said on Tuesday. Rohambakhsh Habibi added that as soon as borderguards got tip-off about the drug-trafficking, they took all likely entries for the smugglers under control. Conducting targeted ambushes, they identified ...

BOJNORD, May 21 (MNA) The border police in Northern Khorasan has said it seized 250kg of opium. Col. Qorbanali Davtalab told reporters on Wednesday that police forces seized the opiate near Shirvan. The load was bound for border cities of Raz and Jergalan from Mashhad. It was after so many hours of intelligence and extensive cooperation within ...

Isfahan, April 16, IRNA Isfahan province police have confiscated 408 kilograms of opium from a band of smugglers Wednesday. According to the Islamic Republic of Iran Police provincial commander, General Abdolreza Aqakhani, while controlling the vehicles on an access road in the province, the police forces got suspicion of two Peugeot cars and ordered ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) An Iranian anti-narcotics official announced that more than 70 percent of the total drug hauls seized in the country over the past Iranian year have been confiscated along the eastern boundaries, namely the shared borders with Afghanistan and Pakistan. General Alireza Akbarshahi, a high-ranking official with the presidential ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) The Iranian law enforcement police forces in the northwestern province of West Azerbaijan have seized near 13 tons of illicit drugs since the beginning of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21 2013 - February 19, 2014), a provincial police chief said. West Azerbaijan's Police Chief General Yahya Sharafi said in the last ...

Tehran, March3, IRNA -- Commander of the Police Anti-Narcotics Squad General Ali Moayyedi announced on Sunday that his forces have seized more than 460 tons of illicit drugs during March 21, 2013-February 20, 2014. ?We have seized a sum of 465 tons of various types of narcotics in the country in 11 months, General Moayyedi told reporters in the Western ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior provincial police commander announced on Wednesday that two armed gangs involved in drug-trafficking activities have been disbanded in the Southern Fars province. A sum of 4 tons of illicit drugs have been discovered and seized in two operations which led to the disbanding of the two drug gangs in the province, Fars Province ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- The drug combat squads of Iran's Law Enforcement Troops have seized one ton of illicit drugs in week-long operations in the Southern province of Fars, a provincial police chief announced on Sunday. We have seized a sum of one ton of narcotics in six separate operations over the past week, Fars Police Commander Brigadier General Sirous ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Irans anti-narcotics police chief said the countrys law enforcement forces have seized a cargo of illicit drugs weighing a ton, in close cooperation with the Pakistani forces. General Ali Moayedi said on Sunday that Iranian police identified and confiscated the huge drug cargo yesterday with the assistance of neighboring Pakistan....

Tehran, Feb 9, IRNA Had the anti-narcotics campaign in Iran not been successful, narcotics trafficking mafia had dared to enter cities and get engaged in armed clashes, putting at stake countrys security, said commander of Border Guards of Iranian Police Force (IRIP) Saturday. In camping against narcotic drugs trafficking the police forces all ...

Drug addictionis widespread across Iran.It plaguespopulations of all ages, from drivers to bazaar vendors to government employees and evencollege students.Various government policies have been tried to address thematter butso far have failed tolowerthe numbers of addicts. A large share of these failures isdue to faulty perspective and policies in confronting ...

Isfahan, Feb 2, IRNA Police forces in Samirom, Shahreza and Naein, Isfahan province, have confiscated some 223 kilograms of narcotics in recent days. According to a report posted on Police website, the commander of the provincial police said Sunday that the police forces discovered the amount of drugs during several operations on the roads leading ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- The drug combat squads of Iran's Law Enforcement Troops have seized more than 8 tons of illicit drugs in month-long operations in the Southeastern province of Sistan and Balouchestan, a provincial police chief announced on Sunday. We have discovered and seized 8,500 kilograms of narcotics in several operations carried out in the ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian interior minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli said the amount of discovery of illicit drugs by Irans drug combat squads has increased by 20 percent in the past six months. The amount of narcotics discovered in Iran has increased by 20 percent since the current government came to power in July, Rahmani Fazli said in a television ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- The drug combat squads of Irans Law Enforcement Troops have seized more than 3,000 kilograms of illicit drugs in the Northwestern province of East Azarbaijan, a provincial police commander announced on Saturday. We have seized and discovered a sum of 3.2 tons of various types of narcotics, including heroin, crystal, opium, hashish ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- The drug combat squads of Iran's Law Enforcement Troops have seized more than 1,300 kilograms of narcotics in an operation in the Southeastern province of Sistan and Balouchestan, a provincial police chief announced on Sunday. We discovered and seized a sum of 1,364 kilograms of opium from a Peugeot 405 passenger car after clashes ...

Daily look at Iran's late-breaking news and upcoming events:   IAEA inspected Arak based on agreement with Iran, official Irans Permanent Representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Reza Najafisaid the recent visit of the watchdogs inspectors to Arak heavy water facilities took place within the framework of its agreement ...

Tehran, Dec 28, IRNA Some 5,229 kilograms of all types of drugs were seized on border areas in the past three months and three drug traffickers were killed in fire exchange, commander for borderguards Brigadier-General Abbas Ataee said on Saturday. Iranian borderguards are in full control of all checkpoints and are to seriously deal with drug traffickers,...

Tehran, Dec 28, IRNA Head of the United Nations country Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Leik Boonwaat hailed Irans anti-narcotics efforts. In a meeting with the Iranian Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli here on Saturday, he pointed to the concerns over the growing opium production in Afghanistan and called for a visit by the ambassadors ...

Tehran, Dec 28, IRNA Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli said the United Nations aids to Iran for its anti-drug campaign is next to nothing. The minister made the remarks in a meeting with the representative of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes (UNODC) in Iran here Saturday. He highlighted the necessity for absorbing more financial,...