admincurrent Iranian year (March 20, 2012 – January 19, 2013).
Speaking to reporters in Iran’s Western city of Khoramabad, Lorestan’s Law Enforcement Police Chief Kazzem Alizadeh announced that police forces have disbanded 62 drug networks in the said period.
The commander said over 2 tonnes of narcotics were discovered by the province’s police and intelligence forces during the first 10 months of the current Iranian year.
In January, Commander of the anti-narcotics squad of Iran’s Law Enforcement Police General Ali Moayyedi said Iranian police forces have seized a total volume of 355 tons of narcotic in 9 months of countrywide operations.
“During the first 9 months of the current (Iranian) year (March 20 – December 20) a sum of 355 tonnes of narcotics have been discovered and seized,” Moayyedi said in a press conference here in Tehran at the time, adding that the figures show an 8 percent increase compared with the same period last year.
He said the seizure included 270 tonnes of opium, 37 tonnes of hashish, 6 tonnes of heroin, 2.5 tonnes of morphine and 40 tonnes of other narcotics.
The commander said police have increased counter-narcotics operations by 50 percent this year and disbanded 1,700 rings involved in drug trafficking activities.
According to the UNODC, these days, 93 percent of the world’s opium is produced in the neighbouring Afghanistan, 60 percent of which is destined for the EU and specially US markets.
And the main transit route is Iran, where the country’s police make discoveries of drug cargoes, disband drug-trafficking gangs and organisations and much more in a bid to rescue not only the Iranian youth but also all those living in Europe and the US. – FNA.
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