A police source in Iran's Sistan and Baluchestan Province has announced that over 1.6 tons of illicit drugs were seized during the past two days.

MNA Irans Foreign Ministry's Director-General for consular affairs criticized the international community's failure to cooperate with Iran for fighting against human and narcotics trafficking in a meeting with his Finnish counterpart. Iranian Foreign Ministry's Director-General for consular affairs Ali Asghar Mohammadi met and held talks with Finnish ...

MNA Islamic Republic of Iran and Russian Federation signed a joint three-year contract on Thursday in the field of countering narcotics. This three- year contract was signed and sealed in the presence the Director General of Iranian Anti-Narcotics Headquarter Brigadier General Eskandar Momeni and Russian Minister of Internal Affairs Vladimir Kolokoltsev....

IRNA - Iran's envoy to Vienna-based international bodies stressed the importance of being committed to confronting illegal drugs. Kazem Gharibabadi made the remarks Sunday in a meeting with Mexico's dynamic Consul General and head of UN narcotics commission, Alicia Buenrostro-Massieu. Referring to the special geographical situation of Iran which ...

Al-Monitor- Irans newlaw for combating drugswill be implemented beginning Nov. 14. The law passed by the Reformist majority parliament and approved by the conservative Guardian Council is set to decrease the number of people executed in Iran, which leadsthe world in executions on a per capita basis. Agencies in Iran responsible for combating drug smuggling,...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Iran held a ceremony in Tehran to mark the upcoming International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, which is observed annually on June 26.     By Tasnim News Agency

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Ministers from Iran and Afghanistan agreed on Thursday to launch a joint pilot scheme on alternative means of livelihood across a border region as part of UN-sponsored efforts to curb narcotics production. The agreement was reached in a meeting between Irans Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli and Afghan Minister of Counternarcotics ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Anti-narcotics units of Irans Police in the central province of Yazd seized 652 kg of illicit drugs in a single operation. The provinces Antic-narcotics Police Chief Colonel Mohammad Hossein Sotoudenia said the operation began on Saturday morning, after police received information about the shipment of a drug haul in desert areas....

More than 70 lawmakers signed a petition earlier this month proposing the abolition of the death penalty in unorganized drug trafficking crimes.   If the plan is approved, the death penalty will apply only to organized drug crime, and offenses like unarmed and nonviolent cases of drug trade will be exempted from capital punishment, said Mir-...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Iran's anti-narcotics police forces managed to seize more than 2.5 tons of illicit drugs in three separate operations against drug smugglers in the southeastern province of Sistan and Balouchestan, the provincial police chief announced. Speaking to the Tasnim News Agency, Brigadier General Hossein Rahimi said last night, after several ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Commander of the anti-narcotics squad of Iran's Law Enforcement Police General Ali Moayyedi announced that over half of the illicit drugs smuggled to Iran comes from neighboring Pakistan. "Some 65 percent of the narcotics are smuggled to Iran from Pakistan and the remaining 35 percent from Afghanistan," General Moayyedi said, addressing ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) In a single operation carried out near Tehran on Sunday, Iran's police managed to capture two major drug smugglers and seize a large amount of illicit drugs, a senior commander declared. On Sunday morning, police officers in Safadasht (west of Tehran province) were informed of a huge drug cargo being carried from Shiraz to Tehran,...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Iran's anti-narcotics police chief announced that his forces have managed to seize 700 kilograms of illicit drugs in the eastern city of Birjand, the provincial capital of South Khorasan. "Last night, our colleagues in the province seized 700 kg narcotics in two operations," Brigadier General Ali Moayyedi said during a press conference ...

Tehran, June 27, IRNA President Hassan Rouhani in a message on the occasion of World Drug Day said the day provides an opportunity for raising awareness and attracting public support against destructive harms of narcotic drugs as well as offering mechanisms in the relentless and overall campaign with such an immense social problem. The message,...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Iran's anti-narcotics police chief said Wednesday that the ringleader of an international drug trafficking gang has been captured in the country in a complicated operation. Speaking at a press conference in Tehran, General Ali Moayedi said the drug kingpin, a 34-year-old Iranian man, was arrested a month ago in the city of Karaj,...

Zahedan, Sistan-Balouchestan Prov., June 23, IRNA Commander of the Border Guard police in Sistan-Baluchestan Province Brigadier General Rahambakhsh Habibi said on Tuesday that 12,114 kg illicit drugs were confiscated in along Iranian border regions in the first three months of the year (starting on March 21). Habibi said the police also arrested ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Iranian President Hassan Rouhani called on world countries, particularly the European states that are attractive destinations for narcotics, to share the burden of fighting a costly war on drug trafficking. Speaking at a session of Iran's Anti-Narcotics Headquarters in Tehran on Sunday, President Rouhani lauded the country's law ...

An official with Iran Drug Control Headquarters said Monday that as much as 100 tons of narcotics, including traditional, industrial and psychedelic drugs, will be destroyed in 23 provinces across Iran on June 26 marking International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. Seyyed Najib Hosseini further said at least 500 drug addicts were ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Iran's Anti-Narcotics Police Chief announced on Thursday that his forces have confiscated a large number of weapons from drug smugglers in the past Iranian calndar year (March 2014 to March 2015), the majority of which were service rifles of NATO forces "The majority of weapons seized from drug smugglers are the service rifles of ...

Bandar Abbas, May 4, IRNA Deputy Commander of Minab police force said on Monday that during the past 24 hours 328,380 grams of various types of narcotic drugs were seized and confiscated from traffickers in that township. The narcotics, comprised of hashish and opium were seized in the course of three police operations, according to General Hassan ...