Iran seizes 4.5 tonnes of hashish in two Afghan-border raids
Iranian police seized about 4.5 tonnes of hashish in two raids near the Afghan border, intercepting a truck carrying 3,200 kg at the Dogharun border region and raiding more than 1,345 kg at another border point in Sistan-Baluchestan. The IRNA agency report gave no date for the raids.
Iranian police seized about 4.5 tonnes of hashish in two separate raids near the border
with Afghanistan, the official IRNA news agency reported.[1]Police intercepted a truck
carrying 3,200 kg of hashish at the Dogharun border region while it was en route to
Southeast Asia.[1]
The second haul of more than 1,345 kg was raided at another border point in southern
Sistan-Baluchestan province.[1]Iran is a main transit route for drugs smuggled from
Afghanistan toward Asia and Europe, with the authorities seizing close to 200 tonnes of
narcotics a year.[1]
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Iran's Drug Control Headquarters said more than 500,000 retailers, distributors and people connected to drug offences were arrested in the Iranian year 1404, which ended in March 2026. It said seizures rose about 3% from 1403 but gave no cannabis breakdown.
On 8 November 2025 police in Rey County, on the edge of Tehran, seized 570 kilograms of marijuana and arrested two people after intelligence work and a judicially coordinated raid in western Tehran Province. The commander called it the largest marijuana seizure of the Iranian year in his jurisdiction.
Khuzestan police said anti-drug officers seized 3.5 tonnes of marijuana in mountainous Dehdz, Izeh, on 16 September 2025, arrested two traffickers after two armed clashes, and destroyed the load on site; Second Lieutenant Asghar Bandari Dali was killed by a gunshot to the head.
Iran executed six convicted drug traffickers whose charges included cannabis alongside methamphetamine and heroin, state media reported on 2 January 2024. Three other traffickers were hanged separately in Ardabil Province for heroin and opium.