Iran seizes members of major drug trafficking cartel
The head of the anti-narcotics department at Iran’s Intelligence Ministry said on Monday that the forces also confiscated 21 tons of drug precursors in the southern Iranian province of Hormozgan.
The security official added that the find constituted a large number of 220-liter barrels containing acetic anhydride liquid, a chemical used for producing drugs, that had been subtly placed in a number of cargo containers.
He added that the traffickers had imported the cargo of chemicals from China and Taiwan in the guise of second-hand auto parts and sought to unload the containers inside Iran and ship them to Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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