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Article: IRAN: IRAN'S NARCOTICS PROBLEM.(Brief Article)
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- IPR Strategic Business Information Database
- Article date:
- March 7, 2000
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"Iran confiscates 85 percent of all the drugs confiscated in this world, except for cocaine. [That means that of] all the morphine, opium, and heroin which is produced in the world and which is confiscated in the world, Iran confiscates more than 85 percent," UN Drug Control Program (UNDCP) spokesman Sandro Tucci told RFE/RL. Tucci warned, however, that Iran stops only about 17 percent of the total traffic. That compares well with a ten percent confiscation rate which is considered the norm for drug interdiction efforts worldwide. Tehran's effort to intercept narcotics is particularly difficult because Iran's eastern neighbor, Afghanistan, produces three times more opium ...
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