Drug seizures up 41%: Iranian police

TEHRAN – Brigadier General Hossein Zolfaqari, the commander of the National Border Police, announced on Sunday that the seizure of illicit drugs in the first half of the current Iranian calendar year (which started on March 21) has increased by 41 percent compared with the corresponding period last year.

Zolfaqari also said that the rise in drug seizures shows that the police have been successful to carry out close surveillance of the borderlines and maintain the security of border areas.