Iran: December 25, 2000

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The increased use of soldiers on the Afghan border has, in the past three months, resulted in the arrest of  9,388 drug smugglers and seizure of over 16 tons of drugs. Much of the smuggled drugs are for use in Iran, where about three percent of the 60 million population are addicts. 

 

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