Iran Press/ Iran News: According to Iranian Police, 140 kg of methamphetamine and 170 kg of opium were seized from the gangs.
As the front line in the fight against drug trafficking in the world, Iran holds the record for narcotics confiscation.
Drugs are a source of many social harms, including divorces, crimes, infectious diseases, so if drugs are controlled, many of the social harms will also be prevented.
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.
UNODC World Drug Report 2020 estimates that in 2018, 91 percent of world opium, 48 percent of the world morphine, and 26 percent of the world heroin were seized by Iran.
In 2020 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 grew 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.
After the Islamic Revolution (in 1979), more than 3,800 were martyred, and more than 12,000 were wounded and disabled in the fight against drug trafficking, Momeni announced. 219
