Two Afghans held at Dogharun crossing with 4 kg of charas
Iranian border forces arrested two Afghans at the Dogharun customs post on the Afghan border and charged them with smuggling about 15 kilograms of drugs, 10 kilograms of it opium and over four kilograms cannabis. Afghan reporting names the customs director and describes the cannabis as charas, and no more than the arrests and charges was reported.
🇮🇷 Dogharun customs, Taybad County, Khorasan Razavi province · Iran
Iran’s border forces arrested two Afghans at the Dogharun customs post as they
entered the country and charged them with drug smuggling, the state IRNA news
agency reported.[1]The load was 10 kilograms of opium and more than four
kilograms of marijuana, the IRNA account said.[1]The director of Dogharun
customs, Sayed Hassan Rahimizadeh, named in Afghan reporting, said the men were
trying to bring 10 kilograms of opium and about four kilograms of charas, the
local word for hashish, into Iran.[2]
Dogharun (also written Dogharon) is Iran’s customs and border crossing opposite
Islam Qala in Herat province, Afghanistan.[1]In Iran, people accused of drug
trafficking face severe punishment, and Afghan reporting said dozens of
traffickers had been executed in the previous few years.[1]The two men’s
names, the charges filed against them and any court outcome were not published.[2]
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Photo illustration headed by the report on the arrest of two Afghans at the Dogharun crossing; it shows two men facing a wall and is not captioned as a picture of this seizure. Photo: Ariana NewsPhoto details
The two opened reports reproduce IRNA and name the Dogharun customs director, but no original IRNA page could be opened, so the arrests are reported at second hand.
The incident date is taken from IRNA's report on Saturday, 13 Hoot (4 March 2023); the sources give no separate hour or formal date for the detention.
Ariana News calls the cannabis marijuana and gives it as over four kilograms, while the Persian-language accounts give about four kilograms of charas, the regional word for hashish; there is no separate hashish figure.
The 15-kilogram total combines opium and cannabis and no breakdown of the exact cannabis weight beyond the stated category is published.
The men's names, their age or home districts, the specific charges, where they are held and any court outcome were not reported.
The Ariana News picture shows two unidentified men facing a wall under the report's headline and is not captioned as this seizure; it is listed as media but does not document this event.
The article also mentions a separate arrest of an Afghan on espionage charges in Mazandaran, a different event left out here.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Ariana News: Iranian customs officials said the two men were carrying about 15 kilograms of drugs in all.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in خبرگزاری کوکچه: IRNA reported the arrests on Saturday, 13 Hoot, a day before the Afghan reports.
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.
Basij volunteers confronted two youths smoking marijuana in Ghalat near Shiraz on 27 October 2014 and shot and wounded both as villagers intervened, the France 24 Observer account reports. Twelve villagers were arrested after a protest outside a police station, and a Persian re-reporting says police listed 90 more residents as wanted on security charges.
