IRNA - The Vienna-based United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime on Thursday acknowledged Iranian campaign against drug-trafficking, saying that Iran ranks top in the international campaign. According to the UNODC annual report for 2019 on the situation of narcotic drugs in the world, Iran seized 631 tons of opium in 2017, ranked first in the world....

Reuters - Irans justice minister said on Tuesday a recent reform of its drug laws should lead to fewer executions after the U.N. Secretary General said he remained alarmed about their high number - nearly 500 last year. As Ali Reza Avai addressed the United Nations Human Rights Council, protesters rallied outside against the senior official who is ...

AP Irans parliament has voted to end the death penalty for certain drug violations in a move that could prevent some 5,000 convicted smugglers from being executed. The semi-official ISNA news agency says a majority of lawmakers voted Sunday to amend the law so that only drug kingpins, armed dealers and those convicted of smuggling more than 50 ...

Today three people have been executed in Iran's city of Semnan (Semnan province), Fars news agency reported. The people, who were drug users and drug dealers, were executed in prison. In February, according to Iran's media outlets, another prisoner was hanged in prison in city of Semnan. By Trend   The Iran Project is not responsible ...

By supporting a UN anti-drug programme operating in Iran, Denmark may be helping Iranian authorities arrest and execute suspected drug users and smugglers Questions have been raised over Denmarks support of a UN anti-drug programme that could be indirectly leading to executions in Iran. Denmark voluntarily supports the United Nations Office on ...