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Iranian police seize 4 tons of illicit drugs

Xinhua, May 10, 2017 Adjust font size:

Iran's anti-narcotics police seized four tons of narcotics in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan on Wednesday, Tasnim news agency quoted the provincial police chief as saying.

In the operations in the cities of Iranshahr and Saravan in the province, two major drug rings were busted, four tons of illicit drugs and some weapons and ammunition were seized from the smugglers, General Hossein Rahimi said.

Rahimi told Tasnim that the wanted smuggler, Khodabakhsh Balouch, who was behind the deaths of several polices officers in the province, was killed in the operation.

Iran has long suffered from drug trafficking, as it is at the crossroad of international drug smuggling from Afghanistan, the world's top opium producer, to Europe.

Over the past decades, Iran's eastern and southeastern border had seen clashes between Iranian security forces and armed drug smugglers. Endit