INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
TEHRAN - Eskandar Momeni, the director of anti-narcotics police headquarters, has said it is a very serious threat that around 90 percent of
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 seizureIran holds the record for narcotics confiscation in the world,
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
