UN Office on Drugs and Crime head Yury Fedotov (right) and Iranian narcotics police chief Hamidreza Housein Abadi look at bags of Afghan-made morphine during a media tour in the city of Zahedan in July 2011. Radio Free EuropeIranian General Sanctioned As Drug Trafficker -- CNN
The United States imposed sanctions Wednesday on a senior member of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Qods Force and designated him as a narcotics trafficker, the first such designation of an Iranian official.
Gen. Gholamreza Baghbani, the current chief of the ICRG-QF office in Zahedan, Iran, has allowed Afghan narcotics traffickers to smuggle opiates through his zone of operations in exchange for money, the U.S. Treasury Department said in a statement.
Zahedan is located in the southeastern part of Iran near the borders of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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More News On Afghanistan's Drug Epidemic
U.S. Says Iranian General Instrumental In Afghan Drug Traffic -- Radio Free Europe
US hits Iranian general with drug sanctions -- FOX News/AP
US slaps sanctions on Iranian Revolutionary Guard general -- Chicago Tribune/Reuters
Treasury Designates Iranian Qods Force General Overseeing Afghan Heroin Trafficking Through Iran -- US Treasury Department
My Comment: With oil and financial sanctions taking a bite, organizations like Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Qods Force must find sources of income ..... and being on the border of Afghanistan .... I guess that source is drugs and weapons.
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