4 tons of drugs, some int’l pushers seized in SE Iran: Cmdr

Rahimi said in a press conference on Saturday that all in all more than 3560 kg opium, about 294 kg heroin, 80 kg morphine, and about 228 kg hashish were confiscated.

He added that some vehicles and a huge amount of guns and ammo were found too, including machine guns, rocker launcher, four grenades, two RPG-7 launcher with 32 rockets, one Brno rifle, five night vision goggles (NVG), 7 handguns, two Kalashnikov machineguns, Grenov gun and thousands of bullets.

Saying that eight drug pushers were arrested and one was killed in the operations, he added one of the dealers had transported 200 tons of drugs in the past 15 years.

All three operations were carried out in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan.

Sistan-Baluchestan Province has long borders with Pakistan and Afghanistan and is constantly involved with fighting terrorists and international drug dealers.

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