Interior Minister: Insurgency, Terrorism Derive from Drug Trafficking

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Iran’s Interior Minister and the Secretary General of Iran Drug Control Headquarters Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli said on Thursday insurgency, money laundering, and terrorism all derive from drug trafficking. The minister’s comment came during a special ceremony held to incinerate more... Read more ...

Veep: Narcotic drugs, crimes, terrorism, main threats to world peace, security

Tehran, June 26, IRNA – First Vice President Esˈhag Jahangiri said that narcotic drugs and hallucinogens have raised concerns among nations and governments, noting that based on international reports, drugs, crimes and terrorism are the three main threats to global peace and security.He made the r... Read more ...

Global drug use prevalence stable, UNODC report

Tehran, June 26, IRNA - Drug use prevalence is stable around the world, according to the 2014 World Drug Report of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), with around 243 million individuals, or 5 per cent of the world’s population aged 15-64 having used an illicit drug in 2012.Launc... Read more ...

Iran forerunner in campaign against drug trafficking: Minister

Tehran, June 26, IRNA - Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli said here on Thursday that Iran is a forerunner in campaign against drug trafficking.Addressing a gathering, he described the international communityˈs assistance to Iran in its counter-narcotics efforts as meager. Rahmani Fazli re... Read more ...

Ban calls for strengthened efforts to fight narcotics

Tehran, June 25, IRNA – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in his message on the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, June 26, 2014, urged the international community to strengthen its efforts to confront illicit drugs as an integral element in building a safe and sustainabl... Read more ...

Rafsanjani: Research is key to multi-dimensional problem of illicit drugs

Tehran, June 23, IRNA – Expediency Council Chairman Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani on Monday called for research studies to resolve the multi-dimensional problem of illicit drugs. He made the remarks in a meeting with Minister of Interior and officials in charge of anti-drug campaign. Ayatol... Read more ...

Interior Minister: Police Seize 570 Tons of Narcotics in One Year

TEHRAN (FNA)- The drug combat squads of Iran's Law Enforcement troops have seized more than half a million kilograms of illicit drugs in the last Iranian year (ended March 20, 2014), Iranian Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli announced on Saturday."Just in the last year, we seized 570 tons ... Read more ...

Iran to incinerate 100 tons of narcotics

Tehran, June 12, IRNA - Iran plans to incinerate around 100 tons of narcotics on the occasion of International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking on June 26.Seyyed Mojtaba Hosseini, an official with Iran Drug Control Headquarters, said on Wednesday 50 tons of the drugs will be burned i... Read more ...

Iran, UNODC Stress Boosting Cooperation in Fighting Crimes, Drugs

TEHRAN (FNA)- Head of Iran's Customs Office Massoud Karbasian and Representative of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Tehran Leik Boonwaat in a meeting on Saturday underlined the necessity for increasing cooperation between the two sides in fighting crimes and drug trafficking.During the... Read more ...

Official: Iran faces tsunami of synthetic drugs

Tehran, June 2, IRNA - An Iranian official says the country faces the risk of “tsunami of synthetic drugs”. During a tour of foreign ambassadors and representatives of international organizations to eastern borders, Vice President of the Drug Control Headquarters (DCH) Ali Reza Jazini said Sunday... Read more ...

Mini-Dublin Group Envoys to Visit Iran’s Eastern Borders

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The ambassadors and representatives of member states of the Mini-Dublin Group in Tehran will pay a visit to Iran’s eastern border regions. The Dublin Group is an informal consultation and coordination body concerned with the global, regional and country-specific problems of il... Read more ...

Tehran-based European ambassadors tour eastern borders

Taibad, Razavi Khorasan prov, June 1, IRNA – Ambassadors of member states of Mini-Dublin group and representatives of the international organizations in Iran visited border areas in this northeastern province on Sunday. About 20 foreign diplomats and representatives residing in the Iranian capita... Read more ...

Pakistan opposed to Iranian forcesˈ entry to suppress terrorists

Islamabad, May 7, IRNA – The visiting Iranian Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani-Fazli said on Tuesday that Pakistan has agreed on joint operations against terrorists and drug traffickers in the border regions, each only on its side of border though.Pakistani Interior Minister, Chaudhry Nisar Ali... Read more ...

Iran seeking Pakistan’s cooperation for recovery of border guard: Iranian Official

Islamabad, May 7, IRNA – A senior Iranian official has said that Iran has sought the cooperation of Pakistan in the recovery of abducted fifth border guard.Talking to IRNA Iran’s Border Guard Commander Brigadier General Hossein Zolfaghari said that Iranian Minister for Interior Abdolreza Rahmani F... Read more ...

Iran, Pakistan discuss matters of mutual interest

Islamabad, May 7, IRNA – Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif and Minister of Interior of Islamic Republic of Iran Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli in a meeting discussed matters of mutual interest including measures to improve security along Pakistan-Iran border.   The meetin... Read more ...

Boosting ties with neighbors, Iran’s policy: Interior minister

Islamabad, May 5, IRNA – Interior Minister of Iran Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli on Monday said that it is policy of the government of Islamic Republic of Iran to strengthen ties with neighbors including Pakistan. Talking to IRNA here, the minister said that Iran and Pakistan share the same religion, c... Read more ...

Iranian Interior Minister Due in Pakistan Next Week

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran’s Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli plans to pay an official visit to Pakistan this Monday, an Iranian lawmaker announced on Saturday. During the visit to Pakistan, Rahmani Fazli will be accompanied by a member of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign... Read more ...

Interior min.: Iran to intensify war on drug lords

Tehran, May 1, IRNA - Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli underlined that the country will intensify its fight against drug lords and mafias in the current Iranian year (starting on March 21, 2014).ژHe was speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a ceremony to unveil 20 new books on fightin... Read more ...

Iran, Russia emphasize need to expand anti-narcotics cooperation

Moscow, Apr 19, IRNA – Iran and Russia exchanged ideas on ways to expand cooperation in campaign against narcotic drugs trafficking in a meeting between the Iranian ambassador to Moscow and head of Russian Drug Control Organization here on Friday. Ambassador Mahdi Sanaˈie and Victor Ivanov in the... Read more ...

Iranian Official: 70% of Illicit Drugs Confiscated along Eastern Borders

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – An Iranian anti-narcotics official announced that more than 70 percent of the total drug hauls seized in the country over the past Iranian year have been confiscated along the eastern boundaries, namely the shared borders with Afghanistan and Pakistan.General Alireza Akbarshahi, a ... Read more ...

Remarks by H.E. Dr. Rahmani Fazli, the Implementation of the Political Declaration and Plan of Action on International Cooperation towards an Integrated and Balanced Strategy to Counter the World Drug Problem

Remarks by H.E. Dr. Rahmani Fazli,The Interior Minister and Secretary General of the Drug Control Headquarters of the Islamic Republic of IranToThe High-level segment of the Implementation of the Political Declaration and Plan of Action on International Cooperation towards an Integrated and Balanc... Read more ...

UN official praises Iranˈs efforts in fight against drug smuggling

Vienna, March 18, IRNA – Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes Yuri Fedotov in a meeting with Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif here on Tuesday praised Iranˈs efforts in fight against drug smuggling.Fedotov said that according to the drug discovery statistics, Ira... Read more ...

Iranian FM meets UN anti-drug czar

Vienna, March 18, IRNA - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif here Tuesday met on the sidelines of the nuclear talks with the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Yury Fedotov.The UN official hailed Iranˈs active efforts to combat narcotics, pointing ... Read more ...

Larijani: Iran keen on long-term economic cooperation with Belarus

Tehran, March 17, IRNA – Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani said on Monday that the Islamic Republic of Iran is keen on long-term economic cooperation with Belarus in light of the current friendly relations.Larijani made the remarks in a meeting with Belarus Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei in Tehran. La... Read more ...

Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan in front line of drug fight

TEHRAN, March 15 (MNA) – Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan have met in a trilateral session in Vienna to discuss fights against drug trafficking.Abdoulreza Rahmani Fazli, Iran’s interior minister, and the secretary general of Iranian Drug Control Headquarters attended the meeting. “Iran, Afghanista... Read more ...