Police Commander of Kerman Province Second Brigadier General Abodlreza Nazeri said on Tuesday that the confiscated narcotics, which had been embedded in a trailer, were captured in Jiroft following series of intelligence operations by local police forces, Mehr News Agency (MNA) reported.

He added the drugs had been loaded from the eastern borders, and the smugglers intended to transport them through the Jiroft-Rabor road to the central parts of the country.

During the operations, the police forces seized 1,187 kg of morphine, and arrested one smuggler, Nazeri said.

Iran has been actively fighting drug-trafficking over the past three decades, despite its high economic and human costs.

The war on drug trade originating from Afghanistan has claimed the lives of nearly 4,000 Iranian police officers over the past four decades. The country has spent more than hundreds of millions of dollars on sealing its borders and preventing the transit of narcotics destined for European, Arab, and Central Asian countries.