Iran has turned into a major passage for the drug transition, local Mehr news agency quoted a drug control official as saying. “One third of the drugs destined to international markets are transited through Iran,” said Brigadier General Ismail Ahmadi-Moqaddam, secretary general of Iran’s Drug Control Headquarters (DCH). According to the official, “Iran is the best and the shortest transit route for drugs to world markets as Iran has long borders with Afghanistan, the main drug producer in the world.” “Iran seizes an average of three tons of drugs, including opium, morphine and heroin, every day,” Ahmadi-Moqaddam said, adding that this indicated Iran “has an important role in campaign against drug trafficking” in the world. According to an announcement released by the Information and Media Communication Center of Iran’s Police late last month, the country had seized some 375 tons of narcotics in the past eight months and “also spent over 600 million U.S. dollars in the last two years to dig canals, build barriers and install barbed wire to seal off the country’s borders.
