Author Topic: The War on Drugs (Read 4533 times)

Pasdar · « **Reply #25 on:** April 20, 2010, 11:15:10 AM »

Afghan MP Unveils Western Forces' Involvement in Drug Trafficking

TEHRAN (FNA)- An Afghan lawmaker disclosed on Monday that the foreign forces deployed in Afghanistan are involved in the production and trafficking of illicit drugs in the country, adding that the British troops have even trained a number of experts for opium cultivation.

"As long as foreign forces are present in Afghanistan, the cultivation, production and trafficking of drugs will continue in the country," Nasimeh Niazi told FNA.

She also reiterated that Helmand province in southwestern Afghanistan has been transformed into a profitable center for foreign states to earn an expense fund for their deployment in the country.

Heroine-production labs in Helmand, which did not exist before the US-led war in Afghanistan, are now plentiful and work overtly, Niazi added.

Pointing to her recent trip to the Helmand province, she said during the trip foreign forces pretended that they were destroying opium poppy farms, but "I realized that they, in fact, destroyed some small farms whose owners were poor farmers who didn't have power and armed forces and had planted one or two hectares of opium poppy" to make a living.

"But those farms where poppies had been planted on several hectares of land and their owners had colluded with the foreign forces and the government were never destroyed," Niazi disclosed.

Iran, which leads international efforts in fighting drug networks and narcotic traffickers according to the UN statistical figures, says that drug production in Afghanistan has undergone a 40-fold increase since the US-led invasion of the country in 2001.

While Afghanistan produced only 185 tons of opium per year under the Taliban, according to UN statistics, since the US-led invasion, drug production has surged to 3,400 tons annually. In 2007, the opium trade reached an estimated all-time production high of 8,200 tons.

Afghan and Western officials blame Washington and NATO for the change, saying the allies have "overlooked" the drug problem for nine years since they invaded the country.

http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8901301473

AminCo · « **Reply #26 on:** May 04, 2010, 04:24:59 AM »

پاکسازی بیش از300مکان توزیع مواد مخدر
ساعت خبر: 12:59 - تاريخ خبر: 13/02/1389

معاون عملیات فرماندهی انتظامی تهران بزرگ گفت : در ادامه طرح امنیت اجتماعی ، برخورد با تولیدکنندگان ، توزیع کنندگان و خرده فروشان مواد مخدر در تهران آغاز شد .

به گزارش واحد مرکزی خبر ، سرهنگ محسن خانچرلی در جمع خبرنگاران با بیان اینکه طرح امنیت اجتماعی از ساعت 22 دیشب آغاز شده است و با هماهنگی مقامات قضایی همچنان ادامه خواهد داشت افزود: دیشب در عملیاتی که با استفاده ازبیش از1500 نیروی آموزش دیده در این زمینه انجام شد ، بیش از300 مکان از پیش شناسایی شده از وجود فروشندگان مواد مخدر پاک شد.

وی با اشاره به هماهنگی خوب مقامات قضایی و دادستان تهران در اجرای این طرح گفت : تاکنون 322 نفر در این زمینه دستگیر شده اند که 17 نفر از آنها زن هستند .

معاون عملیات فرماندهی انتظامی تهران بزرگ با اشاره به کشف 52 کیلوگرم انواع مواد مخدر در این عملیات افزود : 39 کیلو و 260 گرم تریاک ، 8 کیلو و 200 گرم حشیش ، یک کیلو و 365گرم شیشه ، 343 گرم کراک و هزار و 85 عدد قرص روان گردان و تعدادی آلات استعمال مواد مخدر و 68 ترازو از این افراد کشف شد.

خانچرلی با بیان اینکه شماری از این افراد و یا یکی از اعضای خانواده آنها در زمینه کیف قاپی و سرقت های گوناگون فعالیت می کردند از کشف تعدادی رادیو پخش و کیف مسروقه از منازل آنها خبر داد و گفت : دستگیرشدگان از فروشندگان اصلی مواد مخدر در تهران هستند که در مخفی گاه ، محل توزیع ، خانه های تیمی و منازل خود دستگیر شدند.

وی با بیان اینکه در دستگیری این افراد به ماموران تاکید شده بود اگر افراد در منازل خود هستند شئون اجتماعی و شرعی آنها رعایت شود گفت : مردم در دستگیری افرادی که اقدام به فرار می کردند با نیروی انتظامی همکاری کردند.

معاون عملیات فرماندهی انتظامی تهران بزرگ با بیان اینکه نیروی انتظامی توان مقابله با هر پدیده ای را در جامعه دارد گفت : فعالیت در زمینه مواد مخدر از وظایف ذاتی این نیرو است اما پیگیری مستمر آن در قالب طرح های بزرگ نیازمند هماهنگی سایر دستگاه ها است .

وی با تاکید بر اینکه نیروی انتظامی مصمم است موضوع مواد مخدر را به جدی پیگیری کند افزود : در آینده طرحی هم برای برخورد با معتادان پرخطر خواهیم داشت .

http://www.iribnews.ir/Default.aspx?Page=socialContent&news_num=223734

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aryana · « **Reply #27 on:** May 11, 2010, 10:22:59 PM »

we should sell those to americans

Shirazi · « **Reply #28 on:** May 11, 2010, 11:08:11 PM »

Drastic Decrease in Demand for Illicit Drugs in Southern Iran

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran's macro-scale policies for preventing and fighting narcotics and treating addicts have resulted in an eye-catching decrease in demands for illicit drugs, an Iranian provincial official announced on Tuesday.

Secretary of the provincial Coordination Council for Campaign against Drugs Mohammad Qader Jaffari said in an interview with FNA that addiction treatment and prevention centers in the southern province of Bushehr have managed to reduce drug purchase by addicts for 36.776,860 billion rials (approximately USD3.5 mln).

"Considering the (ruling) system's macro-scale policies against narcotics, a number of activities in areas of prevention, treatment and campaign (against drugs) have been carried out by registered bodies throughout the province," Jafari added.

He said that a number 14 addiction treatment centers are currently active in the province, of which only two are state-owned. He also stated that 3,644 individuals have received treatment services from these centers.

According to the statistical figures released by the UN, Iran ranks first among the world countries in preventing entry of drugs and decreasing demand for narcotics.

Each year, the government spends hundreds of millions of dollars erecting barriers along the borders with Pakistan and Afghanistan and pumping resources into checkpoints. Officials said the battle against drug addiction and trafficking costs Iran US$1 billion a year.

According to the UNODC, these days, 93 percent of the world's opium is produced in the neighboring Afghanistan, 60 per cent of which is destined for the EU and specially US markets, and the main transit route is Iran, where the country's dedicated police squads risk their lives to make the most discoveries of drug cargoes, disband drug-trafficking rings and organizations and much more in a bid to rescue not only the Iranian youth but also all those living in Europe and the US.

http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8902211518

IranianGuards · « **Reply #29 on:** May 14, 2010, 05:03:45 PM »

good news

aryana · « **Reply #30 on:** May 14, 2010, 08:03:40 PM »

indeed

Kermanshahi · « **Reply #31 on:** May 26, 2010, 03:14:00 PM »

As long as there is anarchy in Afghanistan the war on drugs cannot be won. Growing other producs doesn't pay anything for the average Afghan so he'll grow opium instead to make a living, can't blame 'em and there is no-one to stop the drug trade from blooming.

Iran can kill a few drug dealers, capture a few of them, confiscate some drugs, but the flow of it into Iran cannot be stopped as long as the problem inside Afghanistan isn't stopped. Sadly, a strong central government and peace in Afghanistan is still a distant perspective, the Americans will stay for another 10 years until they give up and after that still atleast a decade will be needed for the Afghans to fight it out amongst themselfes.

Pasdar · « **Reply #32 on:** June 03, 2010, 06:58:23 AM »

Iran Seizes 33 Tons of Illicit Drugs in Eastern Province

TEHRAN (FNA)- An Iranian provincial official announced that the country's anti-drug police squads have seized several tons of narcotics in the eastern province of South Khorassan during the last Iranian year (ended on March 21).

"Last year, over 33 tons of different types of narcotics were discovered in South Khorassan," Undersecretary of South Khorassan's Drug Campaign Coordination Council Mansour Sabbaq-Gol said.

The official further described addiction and narcotics as an all-out war declared by the arrogant powers against the world nations and states, and called for robust cultural efforts to fight and prevent addiction and use of illicit drugs.

Sabbaq-Gol also underlined the important role of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in preventing addiction in the society.

He noted that 13 NGOs are currently active in the province in this ground, adding that the number would increase to 30 by the end of the current Iranian year.

Iran lies on a transit corridor between opium producing Afghanistan and drug dealers in Europe.

The Islamic Republic has emerged as the leading country fighting drug trafficking after making 85 percent of the world's total opium seizures.

Last week, UN Secretary General's Special Envoy to Afghanistan Staffan de Mistura acknowledged increased drug production in Afghanistan, and praised Iran's activities and efforts in fighting drug plantation, production and trafficking.

http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8903121758

Pasdar · « **Reply #33 on:** June 05, 2010, 12:06:17 PM »

Iran Blames Instability in Afghanistan, Pakistan for Increasing Drug Trafficking

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran's Police Chief Esmail Ahmadi Moqaddam reiterated that instability and insecurity in the neighboring countries of Afghanistan and Pakistan is the main reason for a hike in drug trafficking to Iran.

Ahmadi Moqaddam made the remarks in a meeting with President of the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) Khoo Boon Hui here in Tehran, noting, "The existence of unstable Afghanistan and Pakistan has paved the way for over 100 organized groups to produce and smuggle drugs."

"Iran shares 2,000 kilometers common border with Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq and due to the countries' lack of security, drugs are smuggled into Iran," he said.

He also added Islamic Republic of Iran welcomes cooperation with Interpol, adding "Iran was introduced as a pioneer country for fighting drugs due to its constructive cooperation with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in 2009, and it was elected as the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) Head in 2010."

Hui, for his part, lauded Iran for its effective efforts in fighting the smuggling of the narcotic drugs, and reiterated that all countries around the world use Iran's experiences in fighting drug smuggling and organized crimes.

Iran leads international efforts in fighting drug networks and narcotic traffickers.

According to the statistical figures released by the UN, Iran ranks first among the world countries in preventing entry of drugs and decreasing demand for narcotics. The United Nations credits Iran with the seizure of 80 percent of the opium netted around the world.

http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8903150567

Pasdar · « **Reply #34 on:** June 06, 2010, 11:55:13 AM »

Police Seize over 150kg of Opium in Central Iran

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran's Police squads discovered and seized over 150 kg of opium at a checkpoint in Iran's central province of Isfahan, a provincial police chief announced on Sunday.

"Large amounts of opium were discovered and seized from three trucks during checking operations at Naeen's Shaheed Sherafat passage," Commander of Naeen's Law Enforcement Police Mohammad Ali Yousilian told FNA.

"During the search, police forces discovered and seized over 150 kg of opium skillfully planted (in the trucks)," Yousilian stated.

The commander added that 3 individuals were arrested in the operations, who were later handed over to the judiciary authorities.

Iran, which lies on a transit corridor between opium producing Afghanistan and drug dealers in Europe, has recently stepped up efforts in the campaign against narcotics and drug-dealers.

Of course, the Islamic Republic has already emerged as the leading country fighting drug trafficking after making 85 percent of the world's total opium seizures.

The statistical figures released by the UN also show that Iran ranks first among the world countries in preventing entry of drugs and decreasing demand for narcotics.

Each year, the government spends hundreds of millions of dollars erecting barriers along the borders with Pakistan and Afghanistan and pumping resources into checkpoints.

http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8903161137

Lur · « **Reply #35 on:** October 06, 2010, 04:58:26 AM »

http://english.farsnews.com/imgrep.php?nn=8907131482

Pictures

They look underarmed

Ayyash · « **Reply #36 on:** October 06, 2010, 07:17:33 AM »

Quote from: Lur on October 06, 2010, 04:58:26 AM

http://english.farsnews.com/imgrep.php?nn=8907131482

Pictures

They look underarmed

Thanks for the pictures Lur.

The interesting thing is that these were from earlier in the year and they're just reusing the images, i remember posting these in the gallery way back then.

Here's one:
http://www.iranmilitaryforum.net/index.php?action=media;sa=item;in=674

Pasdar · « **Reply #37 on:** October 11, 2010, 09:55:28 AM »

Iran doesn't send its best to the border areas to fight these drug addicted Taliban. They send recent soldiers for experience. Though they definitely need better weapons than the junk they currently get to fight these people.

Apollyon · « **Reply #38 on:** November 23, 2010, 04:29:03 AM »

What about an electronic (detects and alerts units as to the location of breaches), barbed-wire fence that extends underground. Place along Iran's Eastern Front, along with the current infantry patrols. Augment with satellite photo information feed as to movement of units on ground. Why don't we build our own 'wall'?

Ruhollah · « **Reply #39 on:** January 02, 2011, 07:56:19 PM »

2 Large Drug Cargos Seized in Southeastern Iran

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian police officials announced on Sunday that they have seized two large drug cargos in a series of operations in the country's Southeastern province of Kerman in recent days.

Commander of Kerman's Law Enforcement Police Hossein Chenarian announced that his forces could seize a drug cargo in Anbarabad region after armed clashes with drug-traffickers on Sunday morning.

"1,300 kg of opium skillfully planted in the car was found by the police in the operation," Chenarian said.

In another development, police forces identified a major drug ring after a series of intelligence operations and found out that the ring intended to smuggle a drug cargo from Southeastern Iran to the Northeastern provinces.

The commander said that his troops intercepted the cargo planted in a truck at Mahan's police station and discovered 670 kg of opium.

Iran lies on a major drug route between Afghanistan and Europe as well as the Persian Gulf states. Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the Iranian police have lost more than 3700 of their personnel in the country's combat against narcotics.

Iran seized more than 1,000 tons of opium smuggled from the world's largest opium poppy producer, Afghanistan, only in the last Iranian year (ended on March 20, 2010).

Iran spends billions of dollars and has lost thousands of its police troops in the war against traffickers. Owing to its rigid efforts, Iran makes 85 percent of the world's total opium seizures and has turned into the leading country in drug campaign.

The anti-drug squads of the Iranian Law Enforcement Police have intensified their countrywide campaign against drug-trafficking through staging long-term systematic operations in recent months.

The Iranian anti-narcotic police have always staged periodic, but short-term, operations against drug traffickers and dealers, but the latest reports - which among others indicate an improved and systematic dissemination of information - reveal that the world's most forefront and dedicated anti-narcotic force (as UN drug-campaign assessments put it) has embarked on a long-term countrywide plan to crack down on the drug trade since the beginning of the current Iranian year

http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8910121319

Rakhsh786 · « **Reply #40 on:** July 23, 2011, 06:11:47 PM »

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Iran leads the world in drug seizures: UNODC

TEHRAN, July 18 (MNA) -- United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Executive Director Yury Fedotov has said Iran ranks first in the world in illicit drug seizures.

Iran seizes 80 percent of the opium and 40 percent of the heroin and morphine seized in the world, Fedotov told Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar during a meeting in Tehran on Monday.

“Iran is our important partner in the war on drugs,” he said, adding, it is a “good and reliable” partner for the international community as well.

“We will make efforts to increase international support for Iran,” he added.

Fedotov noted that he and Najjar have the same stance on the campaign against illicit drugs.

He also expressed his condolences over the death of about 3,700 Iranian police and other security forces during clashes with drug smugglers, saying the international community appreciates Iran’s efforts in this regard.

Elsewhere in his remarks, he said UNODC is currently cooperating with Iran in the campaign against drug smuggling and programs to reduce drug consumption and treat drug addicts.

He went on to say that UNODC plans to announce its new programs to help regional nations increase their cooperation in the campaign against illicit drugs by the year’s end.

Speaking to reporters after the meeting, Najjar said the United Nations and the international community should support Iran in its campaign against illicit drugs both in spirit and through financial assistance.

The international community should provide Iran with the equipment necessary to protect its borders against drug smuggling, he stated.

However, he noted that “the international community has always confirmed the Islamic Republic of Iran’s effective measures in the war on drugs.”

He went on to say that Iran has paid a heavy price in the campaign against illicit drugs and many Iranian policemen and other security forces have lost their lives in skirmishes with drug smugglers.

Najjar also said Iran has great experience in this campaign and is ready to share its expertise with regional countries.

He noted that drug cultivation in Afghanistan has increased over the past four months, saying, “We want Afghanistan to take more effective measures in this regard.”

The Iranian interior minister also said that Fedotov plans to visit Iran’s eastern borders in order to become more acquainted with Iran’s activities in the campaign against illicit drugs.

War on drugs should not be politicized

In a separate meeting with Fedotov on Monday, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said that the war on drugs is a complicated and important issue and should not be politicized.

Salehi added that the detrimental effects of illicit drugs on human beings should be taken into consideration in such campaigns.

Fedotov called Iran an “important and strategic partner” of UNODC and said regional countries should hold regular talks on the campaign against illicit drugs.

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http://www.mehrnews.com/en/newsdetail.aspx?NewsID=1361806

Ich · « **Reply #41 on:** August 08, 2011, 05:40:16 PM »

Im very thankfully to Iran of annihilation the bad drugs. Cause if Iran dont do it, the drugs will spread over europe and i had seen a lot of drug-related deaths and know how braindamage these drugs people can make. And i hate seeing that. So: Thank u Iran!

kyuss · « **Reply #42 on:** October 19, 2011, 04:28:08 PM »


Iran Border Police killed 6 members internaitonal drug cartel	Small \| Large

MO_SOBOH · « **Reply #43 on:** October 20, 2011, 08:17:41 AM »

and the UZ would have us believe that Iran organised a supposedly assassination plot with these lozers! go figure!

Ich · « **Reply #44 on:** December 14, 2011, 07:07:06 PM »

Yeah! Good job! Thank you, Iran!

Iran's War on Narcotics:

Iranian Police Seize Over 3.7 Tons of Narcotics in Southern Province

TEHRAN (FNA)- The drug combat units of the Iranian Law Enforcement police have discovered and seized 3,743kg of different types of narcotics in the Southern Bushehr province since the beginning of the current Iranian year (March 21-December 13), a provincial police chief said.

Speaking to reporters on Tuesday evening, Bushehr province's Police Chief Reza Mohammadi Yeganeh announced that police forces have conducted 1,800 drug-combat operations during the period.

Yeganeh stated that the seizures included 1,524kg of opium, 2,111kg of hashish, 16.693kg of heroin, 25.849kg of Crystal (Methamphetamine).

The police commander further announced that 1,400 drug-traffickers have been arrested and 52 other traffickers have been killed in the police operations during the aforementioned period.

The anti-drug squads of the Iranian Law Enforcement Police have intensified their countrywide campaign against drug-trafficking through staging long-term systematic operations since last year.

But, the Iranian police measures along the Eastern borders have forced drug-traffickers to resort to other routes, including the Sea of Oman and the Persian Gulf, for smuggling their drug cargos which originate in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Each year, the government spends hundreds of millions of dollars erecting barriers along the borders with Pakistan and Afghanistan and pumping resources into checkpoints. Officials said the battle against drug addiction and trafficking costs Iran US$1 billion a year.

According to the UNODC, these days, 93 percent of the world's opium is produced in the neighboring Afghanistan, 60 per cent of which is destined for the EU and specially US markets, and the main transit route is Iran, where the country's dedicated police squad risk their lives to make the most discoveries of drug cargoes, disband drug-trafficking gangs and organizations and much more in a bid to rescue not only the Iranian youth but also all those living in Europe and the US.

Iran has always complained about the EU and other international bodies' lack of serious cooperation with Iran in the campaign against drug trafficking from Afghanistan.

ichari · « **Reply #45 on:** January 07, 2012, 08:30:46 PM »

this is not an Islamic way to do ;but if Iran let drugssmugglers pass through its territory to Europe and the United States, such as Morocco, which has an official action against traffickers, and let them do their traffic unofficially.
this is part of Softwar

Nonbarbari · « **Reply #46 on:** January 16, 2012, 11:38:36 PM »

Iranian Police Seize Several Tons of Crystal Meth
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian police forces have discovered and seized 3 tons of Crystal meth (Methamphetamine) during the current Iranian year (ends on March 19) as Iranian police and judiciary officials intensified measures against chemically produced addictive substances, an Iranian police chief said on Monday.

"This (Iranian) year we have had a 3-ton seizure of the synthetic drug of Crystal meth and we have discovered and destroyed several (synthetic drugs production) labs," Iran's Police Chief Brigadier General Esmayeel Ahmadi Moqaddam told FNA in Iran's Southeastern city of Zahedan, the provincial capital city of Sistan and Balouchestan.

He expressed the hope the punishment adopted by the judiciary against synthetic drugs would lead to a decrease both in demand and production of such narcotics.

Methamphetamine, a synthetic drug with more rapid and lasting effects than amphetamine, is illegally used as a stimulant.

Synthetic drugs have recently been smuggled and distributed in Iran by drug-traffickers who seek to change addiction behaviors in the country and redirect addicts' tendency from conventional drugs, such as opium, heroin and hashish, to those narcotics mostly prevalent in the West, like cocaine, crack, crystal meth and LSD.

In May, former Commander of the anti-narcotics squad of Iran's Law Enforcement Police General Hamid Reza Hossein-Abadi said that Iranian police forces have intensified their clampdown on synthetic-drugs production and trafficking, Crystal meth (Methamphetamine) in particular.

Hossein-Abadi said at the time that his forces have intensified the war on those individuals involved in synthetic drugs trafficking after the approval of the recent amendment of the country's anti-narcotics law.

He further noted that the necessary coordination has been made with the judicial authorities to consider proper punishment for synthetic drug traffickers.

http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=9010171411

MO_SOBOH · « **Reply #47 on:** February 03, 2012, 10:01:06 AM »


Iran urges international assistance in war on drugs

Iran urges international assistance in war on drugs

mustavaris · « **Reply #48 on:** April 11, 2012, 05:56:42 PM »

Iran is doing a good job, and paying with blood for it. The struggle to stop the hard drugs should be a common goal. I hope that one day this will become one of fields of cooperation. Heroin is an enemy of mankind even if it is not as bad as crack and methapmhetamines...

Ardalani · « **Reply #49 on:** April 11, 2012, 06:16:25 PM »

The war on drugs is an international failure.

Legalize!