[lbo-talk] Iran takes on drug smugglers

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Tue Jul 29 06:41:12 PDT 2008


Friday, June 27, 2008

Iran takes on drug smugglers http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2008/06/200862620538368661.html

By Nazanine Moshiri in Sistan Baluchistan

The United Nations has warned in a new report that there is a surge in illegal opium being smuggled from Afghanistan into Pakistan and Iran.

Iran has waged a 30 year campaign against the trade which has cost thousands of lives, but the US and EU are now threatening to cut off funding for the operations unless Iran's uranium enrichment is halted.

Al Jazeera's Nazanine Moshiri reports on the battle between police and drug smugglers along the remote frontier. http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2008/06/200862620538368661.html



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