Why is the west funding Iran's deadly war on drugs?
The Guardian / Fazel Hawramy
17-Dec-2011 (one comment)

Representatives of more that 50 countries will meet in Vienna shortly to determine the level of international support that Iran receives for its continuing war on drugs.

 

This comes amid concern about the increasing number of executions for drug-related offences in Iran. Six more people were recently hanged in the city of Kermanshah – executions that a senior figure in the judiciarydescribed as "one of the triumphs of Iran".

 

As part of the counter-narcotics programme, Iran receives a constant flow of technical support from the UK, the US and other western governments, either directly or through the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).

 

Last month, Yury Fedotov, head of the UNODC, said he would "encourage the international community to bolster counter-narcotics" efforts in Iran, Afghanistan and neighbouring countries. However, he made no mention of the consequences of supporting the current Iranian government in this way.

 

The UNODC started its work in Iran in 1998 – o... >>>

Simorgh5555

Iranian blood on Western hands

by Simorgh5555 on Sat Dec 17, 2011 03:07 AM PST

In 2010, the British Foreign Office stated in a report that "for … drug-related and political cases, reliable reports continued to emerge of forced confessions, staged trials and a lack of access to independent legal counsel". Despite this, just a few months later, the foreign secretary, William Hague, met Iran's foreign minister and sought "deeper co-operation" between the two countries on counter-narcotics.

 Another display of dirty double dealing by the British government in its appeasement of IR Terror 



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