Iran Press/ Europe: Eskandar Momeni said on Monday that Iran has seized over 12,000 tons of drugs within the past four decades.
Momeni remarked that 3,800 anti-drug forces have already been martyred and 12,000 dismembered, all fighting drug-trafficking based on religious teachings.
He made the remarks at the meeting of the deputies, director-generals, and secretaries of the Anti-Drug Coordination Council of Provinces in Tehran.
At the end of the meeting, a comprehensive document on the fight against drugs, a comprehensive document on the socialization of anti-drug fight, as well as five books on research into drug addiction and treatment intervention as well as drug abuse were unveiled.
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.
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