TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's media are reporting that police confiscate over a ton of narcotics a day from smugglers. Gen. Ali Moayedi, head of Iran's anti-narcotics police, is quoted by newspapers Sunday as saying that some 30 drug smugglers and addicts are identified and arrested every hour in Iran. He said over 200,000 were detained in the past ...

A businessman pretended he was shipping high-end lingerie to the UAE as a front forsmuggling aviation equipment to Iran, a US court was told. Markos Baghdasarian was arrested at a US airport in May last year, just minutes before he was due to fly to Dubai. US federal investigators claim Baghdasarian set up a company to make it look like he was ...

(Reuters) - Turkish authorities have shut down a small pipeline built by smugglers to carry illegal oil fromIran, officials said on Monday, a new twist as Western sanctions against Tehran bite. Along with the 3-km (1.9-mile) pipeline, Turkish security forces dismantled a rudimentary, hillside refinery with storage capacity of 25,000 liters of crude ...