The largest seizure of Europe-bound heroin in decades. Iran’s police recovered two tons of Class A drugs on New Year’s Eve on the country’s border with Afghanistan. The culmination of a two-month investigation, Iran’s anti-narcotics police chief says the Class A drugs are worth millions of dollars in the European market.
The police chief says Iran’s anti-narcotics police are committed to tackling serious and organized crime which has an impact on the international community. He says the police will continue to make Iran’s borders with Afghanistan and Pakistan, the main supply and transit routes to Europe, as hostile an environment as possible for those involved in the sale, transit or supply of controlled drugs.

Iran, as the first link in the long and lucrative smuggling chain, has for decades fought a lonely battle against drugs along its volatile southeast, where its border meets those of Afghanistan and Pakistan. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, despite the high human costs, Iran is now netting eight times more opium and three times more heroin than all the other countries in the world combined.

By Press TV

 

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