TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's state TV says the country's border police have confiscated over 11 tons of narcotics after fierce clashes with drug traffickers in southeastern Iran, the biggest single consignment ever seized in Iran's war against drugs. It quoted provincial border police chief, Gen. Qolam Nabi Kouhkan, as saying Saturday that the various ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) A prominent Argentine political analyst said the western military campaign against Afghanistan, led by the US, was indeed to rein in the lucrative narcotics market and maximize profits, rather than an oft-repeated pretext to fight terrorism. The truth is that Afghanistan was not invaded as part of the so-called war on terrorism but ...

BAKU, December 27 (RIA Novosti) - Agents of Azerbaijans National Security Ministry have seized 19.3 kilograms of opium resin smuggled in from Iran, the ministry press service said on Thursday. An Azerbaijani national was arrested as he picked up the drugs from a cache where they had been deposited by an unidentified Iranian, presumably a member of ...