Iran Sita Lebih dari 11 Ton Obat-obatan Terlarang
Iran Seizes over 11 Tons of Illicit Drugs
Editor : Heru S Winarno
Translator : Parulian Manalu
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Teheran (B2B) - Polisi perbatasan Iran menyita lebih dari 11 ton obat terlarang di Provinsi Sistan dan Baluchestan di bagian tenggara negeri tersebut, demikian laporan kantor berita Mehr, Minggu.
Kepala Polisi Perbatasan Iran, Brigadir Jenderal Hossein Zolfaqari, Sabtu (8/12), mengatakan setelah 36 jam bentrokan dengan penyelundup, 11,039 ton narkotika disita, di antaranya, sebanyak 10,639 ton opium dan sisanya ganja, katanya.
Itu adalah pengiriman terbesar yang pernah disita sejak 1979, kata Zolfaqari.
Pasukan polisi perbatasan, yang telah mendapat informasi tentang pergerakan terencana obat terlarang melintasi perbatasan, ditempatkan di sepanjang 77 kilometer perbatasan antara Iran dan Pakistan.
Polisi perbatasan Iran bentrok dengan penyelundup dan menyita barang kiriman tersebut setelah menewaskan seorang penyelundup dan melukai sejumlah lagi, kata Zolfaqari sebagaimana dilaporkan Xinhua.
Pada 17 Oktober, seorang komandan senior polisi Iran Kolonel Eftekhari mengatakan Pasukan Polisi Penerap Hukum Iran menyita lebih dari 4,5 ton opium setelah mencegat barang haram itu di dekat ibu kota negeri tersebut, Teheran.
Iran berada di persimpangan jalur penyelundupan internasional narkotika dari Afghanistan menuju Eropa.
Tehran - The Iranian border police have seized over 11 tons of illicit drugs in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan, semi-official Mehr news agency reported Sunday.
Iran´s border police chief, Brigadier General Hossein Zolfaqari, said Saturday that after 36 hours of clash with smugglers, 11.039 tons of illicit drugs were seized. Of this amount, 10.693 tons was opium and the rest was hashish, he added.
It is the largest shipment that has been seized since 1979, Zolfaqari was quoted as saying.
Border police forces, who had been informed about the planned movement of illicit drugs across the border, were stationed along a 77-km stretch of border between Iran and Pakistan, clashed with smugglers and seized the shipment after killing one of the smugglers and injuring a number of them, said Zolfaqari.
On Oct. 17, a senior Iranian police commander, Colonel Eftekhari, said Iranian Law Enforcement Police Forces seized over 4.5 tons of opium after intercepting a drug cargo near the country ´s capital city of Tehran.
Iran is located at the crossroad of the international drug smuggling route from Afghanistan to Europe.
