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police confiscate over 750kg of narcotics in Yazd

  The Police chief of Yazd province Brigadier General Abbas Ali Behdani Fard made the announcement on Tuesday, saying that after intelligence operations, the anti-narcotics police forces identified a drug-trafficking gang that intended to transfer the consignment to the Iranian capital of Tehran.  During the operation, the police forces busted …

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1.5 tons of opium seized in south Iran

The Prosecutor of Kangan County in Bushehr Province in the south of Iran Akbar Ahmadi told reporters on Monday night that a big shipment of narcotics, that was planned to be transferred to the central cities in Iran was identified and seized by intelligence and judicial forces in Kangan. The prosecutor said …

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In Afghanistan, opium is as big a winner as Islamic extremism

(FILES) In this photograph taken on April 19, 2016, an Afghan farmer harvests opium sap from a poppy field in the Chaparhar district of Nangarhar province. Afghanistan saw a 10 percent jump in opium cultivation this year, a sharp rise owing to favourable weather, growing insecurity and a drop in …

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Global Trends in Drugs Use

Various regions follow similar trends regarding the adoption of varied types of traditional and industrial drugs, as International forums report, as well as annual reports of the UN office on drugs and crime, indicated. The distinction lays in varied regional trends caused by different political, economic, security, and social situations.   …

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Middle East & Fragile States

“The Fragile State Index” is considered to be a brand new notion in political science and international relations, proposing effective devices for researchers to elucidate the various States’ performance in disparate fields. In recent years, the concept has become an indicator for the Fund for Peace, by which the performance …

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