Iran Press/Iran News: Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs, Mohsen Baharvand, said on Thursday that the imposition of illegal sanctions and unilateral US coercive measures against Iran had hampered the implementation of international cooperation, especially in the fight against drugs.
Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs said: "Some approaches and tendencies under various pretexts seek to legalize and decriminalize the drug problem, which is contrary to the goals set out in the international conventions to achieve a world free of Drug abuse and trafficking.
Baharvand stated that the will of the Islamic Republic of Iran to fight against drugs is based on the need to avoid politicization and unilateralism and to pay attention to international cooperation.
According to the United Nations, 75 percent of opium discoveries, 61 percent of morphine and 17 percent of the world's heroin are detected by the Islamic Republic of Iran. The Islamic Republic of Iran has so far sacrificed about 4,000 martyrs and thousands of others in the fight against drug trafficking.
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