“We pursue the four main issues of confrontation, treatment, prevention, and rehabilitation. The issue of prevention is a long-term strategy because we are neighboring a country that is the hub of opium production,” Momeni said, adding that opium production has increased with the support of the United States over the past 20 years, ILNA reported.

On August 15, Tehran police chief Hossein Rahimi announced that more than 3,400 smugglers of narcotics were arrested through a plan called Zafar, literally meaning victory.

Anti-narcotics police officers arrested 3,424 drug distributors and discovered more than 2 tons of narcotics in the implementation of the 18th phase of the plan, he explained, IRNA reported.

He went on to say that eight houses were officially sealed and 19 firearms were discovered from drug dealers.

World record for narcotics seizure

Iran holds the record for narcotics confiscation in the world, Momeni said in December 2021.

Iran holds the record for narcotics confiscation in the world. However, great achievements in the field of countermeasures have been gained, and the United Nations has officially announced that 90 percent of opium, 70 percent of morphine, and 20 percent of world heroin have been discovered by Iran.

In the Iranian calendar year ended in March 2021, about 1,200 tons of drugs were discovered, which was the highest rate of discovery in the world.

According to figures released by the United Nations in 2000, Afghanistan produced about 200 tons of narcotics, but in 2018, it has grown to 9,500 tons.

In other words, the production of narcotics has increased fifty times, which has doubled the need for prevention efforts, he highlighted.

Despite the conditions caused by the coronavirus outbreak and the imposition of harsh sanctions against the country, fortunately, with the efforts of anti-narcotics police in 2020, drug detection increased by 41 percent.

After the Islamic Revolution (in 1979), 3,800 were martyred, and 12,000 were wounded and disabled in the fight against drug trafficking.

The UNODC has praised Iran’s efforts to fight against narcotics trafficking on the occasion of International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.

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This dear and lasting Master in the garb of a noble ideologue has a famous sentence that when one ponders about it deeply, he finds the current condition of the world more understandable. He says, “Left and Right are both like two sharp edges of scissors that when they reach each other, are after cutting Islam.” Just a couple of days ago I was reading an article from Master Yadollah Javani that I like to quote it here in my article entirely.

He writes, “If religion used to be presented as the opium to the people and as a factor for human society backwardness before the victory of the Islamic Revolution, but today Islam has clarified all ways of the salvation of humanity from all man-made deadlocks. The era of man-made schools with a materialistic approach has come to its end. Socialism should be studied in the history museums and liberalism is agonizing and it will never revive from its deathbed. The Islamic Revolution with the slogan of “No to the East, No to the West” targeted the socialist and liberalist school of thoughts, and with reviving the genuine Islam of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) it put on display the capacities of political Islam for administering the human societies. The Islamic Republic in action proved that not only Islam is not an opium to the people and the factor for keeping human societies backward, but also it is for the growth and excellence of mankind and his progress either individually or socially. With the Islamic Revolution and the Iranian nation’s 42 years of resistance against all pressures and plots of the satanic and arrogant powers, most of the false allegations against Islam like “the contradiction between science and belief” have turned pale. When the Islamic Republic defines “Islamic Civilization” and paving the ground for “growth and excellence of human” on the earth as its doctrine, this doctrine and all goals inspired by it can have describable attractions for all humans from any ethnic and race. The emergence of Islamic resistance in the strategic West Asia region, Islamic awakening in all Muslim states, attention to spirituality in all countries in the world, the growth of Islamism in Western societies especially in Europe are all signs of charms of political Islam. The main reason behind this charm is its alignment and unison in the main mottos of the Islamic Revolution like justice, liberty, ethics, spirituality, progress, and human dignity, with an intact and healthy nature of humans. Now the Islamic Republic as the flag-bearer of the Islamic Revolution civilization movement has turned into an inspiring country for other nations but one should know that Islam has enough power for paving the path and removing all challenges provided that Islamic experts and intellectuals strive in accordance with Islam and with time requirements and operationalizing Islamic concepts and its sublime values, and rise for a deserved jihad in this regards. Now the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, who has wisely in the past three decades steered the Revolution and the Islamic establishment towards the ideals and steered it to survive the tough passes, has such a demand from the Islamic scientists. Last week and in the meeting with the chairman and members of the Assembly of Experts, the Leader termed the spiritual and valuable concepts of Islam as the software of the structure of the Islamic establishment and called for upgrading this software in accordance with the expansion of Islamic establishment activities and the emergence of new challenges, saying, “One of the important tasks of scholars and intellectuals is to strengthen the school of thought of the Islamic government in order to operationalize the required concepts in the society.”

Regarding the deep concepts that the writer has brought in his article, this notification is timely that why the Islamic Revolution in creating a psychological behavior bed has not provided the ground for the welfare of its citizens, to understand it better, I should mention that in the executive operation in the Islamic Republic we have faced with rightist and liberal governments and during the past 42, it has not been the Islamic Revolution to have set the execution policy, but it has been the choice that set the base for the behavior basics for running the country and if all convergent foundations in choosing had been aligned with the Islamic Revolution, we would have never faced with such a challenge that the Gini coefficient, used in the economy as the standard for representing income inequality, becomes so gravely wide.

Today fortunately the ground for better understanding of executive deviations has been set up and this optimism exists that on the course of screening, we can provide a ground for a choice matching the Revolution material in order that people find a model fully in line with proper and religious concepts and move towards its materialization.

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According To Iran News, Spokesman for the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration (IRICA) Seyyed Rouhollah said that two different consignments of opium and crystal have been seized by the police of customs in two separate operations.

He made the announcement on Saturday, saying that West Tehran customs police traced the haul of the illicit drugs, which was destined for Germany.

According to him, the consignment included 41 kilograms of opium.

4476 grams of crystal was also seized in the Special Economic Zone Dogharoon in Razavi Khorasan Province, he added.

The amount of methamphetamine smuggled from Afghanistan to Iran has reached 10 tons in the current Iranian year (March 21- Jan. 21) which shows a ten-fold increase compared to the corresponding period last year”, he noted.

Iran is at the forefront of the fight against drug trafficking and thousands of Iranian forces have been so far martyred to protect the world from the danger of drugs.

According to reports, in 2018 alone, Iranian forces carried out 1,557 operations against drug traffickers, seizing approximately 807 tons of different types of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances.

According to the World Drug Report 2019” of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, in 2017, Iran had seized the largest quantity of opiates, accounting for 39% of the global total.

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In a speech in Tehran on Tuesday, Brigadier General Momeni highlighted Iran’s achievements in the anti-drugs campaign and said the European countries not only do not help the Islamic Republic but are also blocking the country’s campaign.

“Drugs production in Afghanistan is increasing every year. Now there is no doubt that US forces and occupiers in Afghanistan support the Narcotics production process,” the official added.

They are working to create insecurity in the region by any means, including supporting drug production in Afghanistan, he added.

“In a trip, I had to one of these European countries, an official of the country, which is located on a major drug (transit) route, announced that they had only discovered 2.5 kg of illicit drugs in a year, which surprised me greatly,” the official went on to say.

Iran, which has a 900-kilometer common border with Afghanistan, has been used as the main conduit for smuggling Afghan drugs to narcotics kingpins in Europe.

Despite high economic and human costs, the Islamic Republic has been actively fighting drug-trafficking over the past decades.

The country has spent more than $700 million on sealing its borders and preventing the transit of narcotics destined for European, Arab and Central Asian countries.

The war on drug trade originating from Afghanistan has claimed the lives of nearly 4,000 Iranian police officers over the past four decades.

According to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, the Islamic Republic is netting eight times more opium and three times more heroin than all other countries in the world combined.

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TEHRAN (Iran News) – The anti-narcotics police of Tehran Province have dismantled 400 smuggling bands and seized over 100 tons of different illicit drugs in the past six years.

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TEHRAN (Iran News) – The police forces of Qom Province have intercepted 1,006 kilograms of illicit drugs on Dilijan-Salafchegan road.

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TEHRAN (Iran News) – Head of Iran’s Drug Control Headquarters (DCH) Eskandar Momeni said that Iran is spending a significant amount of budget on fighting against trafficking drugs.

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