TEHRAN (Tasnim) Iranian police forces in the central province of Isfahan managed to seize nearly half of ton of opium in several operations, smashing five drug rings, the provinces police chief announced on Saturday. Isfahan Province Police Chief Brigadier General Abdolreza Aqakhani said that in an operation in the eastern parts of the province, ...

[caption id="attachment_22231" align="alignright" width="186"] UNODC Executive Director Yury Fedotov[/caption] TEHRAN (Tasnim) Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Yuri Fedotov praised Irans achievements in the fight against illicit drugs, saying that the Western Asian country is peerless in this regard. No ...

[caption id="attachment_22231" align="alignright" width="177"] UNODC Executive Director Yury Fedotov[/caption] TEHRAN (FNA)- Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Yury Fedotov voiced the UN body's pleasure in the unparalleled efforts made by Iran in its massive campaign against drug trafficking all throughout the ...

[caption id="attachment_138416" align="alignright" width="222"] H.E. Ambassador Norheim (centre), with Mr. Boonwaat and Mr. Deilamizadeh to her right[/caption] UNODC Iran and the Drug Control Headquarters (DCHQ) organized a visit for H.E. Ms. Aud Lise Norheim, the Norwegian Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Iran, to the Women Drug Therapeutic ...

[caption id="attachment_128953" align="alignright" width="200"] Parents of children evaluate the FAST program very positively.[/caption] The UNODC in Iran commenced implementation of the Families and Schools Together (FAST) Programme with the objective of drug prevention among Iranian youth. Today, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) ...

[caption id="attachment_118561" align="alignright" width="230"] Participants in the workshop[/caption] The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) together with the United Nations Information Centre (UNIC), held a workshop entitled "Finding UN Information and Documentation" for some 30 graduate students of law on 16 September 2014 at Faculty ...

10 September 2014. About 80 representatives of active non-governmental organizations in the area of cultural property as well as experts of Iranian Cultural Heritage, Handicraft and Tourism Organization (ICHHTO) and governmental officials attended the meeting on the Role of Civil Society in Counter Trafficking in Cultural Property on 09 September 2014,...

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TEHRAN, April 22 (MNA) The UNODC Regional Representative Centre for East Asia and the Pacific has toured Irans southern war fronts along with his wife and two daughters. Gary Lewisvisited for two days war fronts in Abadan and Khorramshahr. Their visit was commissioned by attempts of war invalids in Tehran Museum of Peace.   Lewis family ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) The UN Office on Drugs and Crime's country office in Tehran came to know its new head on Thursday as the Australian Leik Boonwaat took up his new post five months after his predecessor left Tehran in May. The UNODC Tehran Office Bon Watt who will hold this position for at least two years was formerly serving as the UNODC field office ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) An official with the Iranian Anti-Narcotic Drugs Campaign Headquarters met a UN representative on Saturday when he criticized the international community for its apathy towards Irans combat against drug trafficking. Deputy Head of the Iranian Anti-Narcotic Drugs Campaign Headquarters for Demand Reduction Babak Dinparast said as ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran will host a conference and a regional workshop on international cooperation and campaign against cyber crimes on August 13-14, a senior police commander announced on Monday. Eight regional countries, representatives of Interpol and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and Irans Cyber Police chief will take part in the conference,...