Ya all don't know where I can score any opium, do ya? Who's mucking up the trade supply routes?
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Fri, 01 Jan 2010 06:31:37 GMT
General Hamid Reza Hossein-Abadi
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Iranian police have seized more than 340 tons of drugs
throughout the country during the past nine months, a senior
Iranian commander says.
"More than 340 tons of drugs have been seized all over Iran
in the past nine months," IRNA quoted the commander of the
drug squad, General Hamid Reza Hossein-Abadi, as saying on
Thursday.
"Over 25 tons of the seized drugs were heroin and morphine,"
he went on to say.
"According to official statistics, more than 80 percent of
the drugs were seized in eight border provinces, especially
in the country's eastern borders," he further explained.
Hossein-Abadi also pointed out that the Iranian police have
so far arrested 170,000 drug dealers in various parts of the
country.
Iran lies on a transit corridor between opium producers in
Afghanistan and drug dealers in Europe.
Iranian police officials maintain that drug production in
Afghanistan has had 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 the seven years since the invasion of the
country.
The United Nations credits Iran with the seizure of 80
percent of the opium netted around the world in 2007.
HRF/MTM/JG
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'No military solution to crisis in Afghanistan'
Fri, 01 Jan 2010 03:15:00 GMT
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (L) and Abdullah Gul
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Turkish counterpart
Abdullah Gul say there is no military solution to the crisis
in Afghanistan.
Ahmadinejad and Gul held a telephone conversation on
Thursday to discuss the regional developments, especially
the situation in Afghanistan.
The two presidents said that the Afghan people need
humanitarian assistance and support to reconstruct their
country, not more weapons, IRNA reported.
�Experience has proven that military options will not work
in Afghanistan because Afghans need humanitarian assistance
and support to reconstruct their country,� Ahmadinejad said.
Gul stated that Turkey and Iran have the same approach
toward Afghanistan and reiterated that Afghanistan needs
humanitarian assistance and not military support.
MGH/HGL
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