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Iran is number 1 in fighting drug trafficking in the world . More than 4000 martyrs in this way proves it . So stop posting BS .
Iranians biggest drug smugglers to Indonesia
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Iran is number 1 in fighting drug trafficking in the world . More than 4000 martyrs in this way proves it . So stop posting BS .
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Why did't you ask he/she?
I wonder, if he doesn't like my view why did he/she support Indonesian democracy?
Maybe it was only an act of foolish chauvinist? Not sure
He/she saying I was the bad guys, but that was not me who talk about killing the others
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I am too afraid to ask, because he/she may send his/her secular Indonesian death squad to get me.
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Iranian Society is in total denial about its Drug Problem. This is an issue that is not uncommon in any country, but in Iran it transcends just an issue. In Iran the Drug Addiction has always been a huge problem. Estimates range from 6% to 10% of Iranian society addicted to Drugs. These are not just some poor uneducated people who indulge in this addiction. Rather the addiction cuts across all the segments of the Iranian Society.
Iran's hidden scourge: widespread drug abuse at all levels of society - The Globe and Mail
In the fetid slum of Shoosh, addicts lie comatose in a warren of alleys in one of Tehran’s oldest neighbourhoods. Buyers glance nervously at strangers while dealers stash huge stacks of worn bills into bulging pockets of over-large jackets on a hot spring day.
Iran is battling widespread drug abuse, although no one seems to how just how big the problem.
From the southern slums, past the fancy shopping avenues like Vali Asr, where a glassy-eyed young man in expensive clothes is bundled into an ambulance, to the high-end parties behind walls of fancy houses in North Tehran, addiction infests every strata of society. Coping with the massive problem while still denying it poses a serious threat, unmasks the sort of wildly improbable paradox that sometimes seems to define this proud, embattled, society.
“For a long time nobody wanted to admit it but drug abuse was ravaging our society,” said Abbas Deylamizade, the managing director of Rebirth, an Iranian non-governmental organization dealing with drug addiction and abuse. “But now the scourge is so bad that we are finally reaching the point where the government is getting really involved.”
In Shoosh, for the equivalent of 50 cents or furtive street sex a wretched addict can score a single adulterated dose of heroin from the poppy fields of neighbouring Afghanistan. Uptown, crack, crystal meth and cocaine – “imported” like other desirable designer goods from the West – are the drugs of choice.
Mr. Deylamizade estimates that Iran, with a population of roughly 80 million, may have as many as five million hard-core addicts and millions more occasional users. Drug use sometimes seems endemic among the young. At a stoplight in Tehran, a pair of young women driving a late-model car blithely pulled out a glass pipe and passed it back and forth until the light turned green. “It’s so much worse than when I was a teenager,” says a young man who works at a central mosque that hosts a self-help group for addicts.
Tall and lean in a blue suit that looks a couple of sizes too big, Mr. Deylamizade, 41, knows what he is talking about. He, too, was an addict, sliding from party use in Shiraz as a youth into long, dark years of addiction. Now he runs the largest drug treatment NGO in the country with more than 140 centres and 600,000 clients.
At one Rebirth street clinic, Fathi, barely out of his teens, shook uncontrollably as other addicts tried to keep his head from smashing the steps in a tiny courtyard.
Some of the Shoosh clinics deal only with women. In a society where public modesty is paramount, female addicts, often reduced to prostitution, are outcasts, even among the underclass of street users. “There is a terrible increase in drug use among women, rich and poor, and it often becomes part of our other ‘forbidden’ activity, the sex trade,” Mr. Deylamizade said.
Yet there are also nascent signs of remarkably progressive, humane treatment. Where once Iran boasted of publicly hanging drug dealers, there are now street clinics offering oral methadone substitution treatment.
A wide array of government, private, community and mosque-based programs are belatedly tackling the problem.
But they can get tangled up in Iran’s other problems. For instance, while big businesses and traders seem to have no difficulty moving lots of money in and out of the country despite the sanctions on dealing with Iran’s major banks, funding flows to help NGOs have been trapped.
For more than five months, Rebirth has been waiting a stalled €400,000 ($516,000) payment from the European Union. Some smaller drug treatment programs have closed, cut off by sanctions from foreign funding. “The EU won’t just hand-carry the money in, which is what businesses do,” said Mr. Deylamizade.
Away from the street clinics in Shoosh and the designer drugs at extravagant North Tehran parties (where forbidden alcohol is also the norm) and far to the west of the sprawling capital, a tiny oasis of mutual support and hope hugs the side of a ravine.
Amidst brightly-painted dormitories, built by the addicts themselves, Rebirth runs a three-month detox and rehabilitation centre in one of the wild and remote gullies about 30 kilometres from the city.
Behza Zarbakhsh, 25, a powerfully-built accountant, is on his 67th-day of a three-month stay at the rustic centre built alongside the tiny Verdij River. “For six years I was hooked on crystal meth, and then I quit for 18 months but relapsed,” he said. “I realized I was killing myself, so now I hope that being here start a new kind of life.”
The centre throws together a wide range of addicts from different backgrounds. Babak Enayati, 42, a goldsmith, lost his partner, his business and his wife to a tangle of drugs and crime and, he says, bad luck. “When I first came here, I told everyone I wasn’t really a serious user,” he said in a riverside interview. “After about four days, I began to realize just how deep was my trouble.”
That may be a useful metaphor for the broader society. Iran is just starting to come to terms with the scale and the seriousness of the endemic drug abuse that threatens it. “My wife says if I can stay clean when I get out of here, then maybe we can reconsider our marriage,” Mr. Enayati said with a trace of a smile.
Iran's hidden scourge: widespread drug abuse at all levels of society - The Globe and Mail
In the fetid slum of Shoosh, addicts lie comatose in a warren of alleys in one of Tehran’s oldest neighbourhoods. Buyers glance nervously at strangers while dealers stash huge stacks of worn bills into bulging pockets of over-large jackets on a hot spring day.
Iran is battling widespread drug abuse, although no one seems to how just how big the problem.
From the southern slums, past the fancy shopping avenues like Vali Asr, where a glassy-eyed young man in expensive clothes is bundled into an ambulance, to the high-end parties behind walls of fancy houses in North Tehran, addiction infests every strata of society. Coping with the massive problem while still denying it poses a serious threat, unmasks the sort of wildly improbable paradox that sometimes seems to define this proud, embattled, society.
“For a long time nobody wanted to admit it but drug abuse was ravaging our society,” said Abbas Deylamizade, the managing director of Rebirth, an Iranian non-governmental organization dealing with drug addiction and abuse. “But now the scourge is so bad that we are finally reaching the point where the government is getting really involved.”
In Shoosh, for the equivalent of 50 cents or furtive street sex a wretched addict can score a single adulterated dose of heroin from the poppy fields of neighbouring Afghanistan. Uptown, crack, crystal meth and cocaine – “imported” like other desirable designer goods from the West – are the drugs of choice.
Mr. Deylamizade estimates that Iran, with a population of roughly 80 million, may have as many as five million hard-core addicts and millions more occasional users. Drug use sometimes seems endemic among the young. At a stoplight in Tehran, a pair of young women driving a late-model car blithely pulled out a glass pipe and passed it back and forth until the light turned green. “It’s so much worse than when I was a teenager,” says a young man who works at a central mosque that hosts a self-help group for addicts.
Tall and lean in a blue suit that looks a couple of sizes too big, Mr. Deylamizade, 41, knows what he is talking about. He, too, was an addict, sliding from party use in Shiraz as a youth into long, dark years of addiction. Now he runs the largest drug treatment NGO in the country with more than 140 centres and 600,000 clients.
At one Rebirth street clinic, Fathi, barely out of his teens, shook uncontrollably as other addicts tried to keep his head from smashing the steps in a tiny courtyard.
Some of the Shoosh clinics deal only with women. In a society where public modesty is paramount, female addicts, often reduced to prostitution, are outcasts, even among the underclass of street users. “There is a terrible increase in drug use among women, rich and poor, and it often becomes part of our other ‘forbidden’ activity, the sex trade,” Mr. Deylamizade said.
Yet there are also nascent signs of remarkably progressive, humane treatment. Where once Iran boasted of publicly hanging drug dealers, there are now street clinics offering oral methadone substitution treatment.
A wide array of government, private, community and mosque-based programs are belatedly tackling the problem.
But they can get tangled up in Iran’s other problems. For instance, while big businesses and traders seem to have no difficulty moving lots of money in and out of the country despite the sanctions on dealing with Iran’s major banks, funding flows to help NGOs have been trapped.
For more than five months, Rebirth has been waiting a stalled €400,000 ($516,000) payment from the European Union. Some smaller drug treatment programs have closed, cut off by sanctions from foreign funding. “The EU won’t just hand-carry the money in, which is what businesses do,” said Mr. Deylamizade.
Away from the street clinics in Shoosh and the designer drugs at extravagant North Tehran parties (where forbidden alcohol is also the norm) and far to the west of the sprawling capital, a tiny oasis of mutual support and hope hugs the side of a ravine.
Amidst brightly-painted dormitories, built by the addicts themselves, Rebirth runs a three-month detox and rehabilitation centre in one of the wild and remote gullies about 30 kilometres from the city.
Behza Zarbakhsh, 25, a powerfully-built accountant, is on his 67th-day of a three-month stay at the rustic centre built alongside the tiny Verdij River. “For six years I was hooked on crystal meth, and then I quit for 18 months but relapsed,” he said. “I realized I was killing myself, so now I hope that being here start a new kind of life.”
The centre throws together a wide range of addicts from different backgrounds. Babak Enayati, 42, a goldsmith, lost his partner, his business and his wife to a tangle of drugs and crime and, he says, bad luck. “When I first came here, I told everyone I wasn’t really a serious user,” he said in a riverside interview. “After about four days, I began to realize just how deep was my trouble.”
That may be a useful metaphor for the broader society. Iran is just starting to come to terms with the scale and the seriousness of the endemic drug abuse that threatens it. “My wife says if I can stay clean when I get out of here, then maybe we can reconsider our marriage,” Mr. Enayati said with a trace of a smile.
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I'm sorry Iran could not be an Utopian society like Pakistan.....
Drowning in Drugs: Heroin cheaper than food in Pakistan - YouTube
I'm sorry Iran could not be an Utopian society like Pakistan.....
Drowning in Drugs: Heroin cheaper than food in Pakistan - YouTube
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So, does that mean they are morally corrupt? :/ or is that the dirty work of the revolutionary guards to make money?
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Whatever the case is, It can't be worse than the Al Sauds regime. You have Al Sauds criminals doing drugs, modern day slavery, and terrorism all over Europe and South America.
Saudi Prince Nayef bin sultan convicted for cocaine smuggling return home ! Hypocrisy ! - YouTube
French court sentenced a Saudi prince to 10 years in prison for abusing his role in a large-scale cocaine smuggling operation. But the prince isn't likely to see the inside of a cell anytime soon. Saudi Prince Nayef bin Sultan bin Fawwaz al-Shaalan, believed to be living in Saudi Arabia, did not appear at today's hearing, or the trial which preceded it, and was sentenced in absentia by the court. It also fined him $100 million for his role in the plot to smuggle two tons of cocaine from Colombia to an airport outside Paris in 1999. Nine other defendants were also convicted in absentia for their part in the operation. The prince, who is the grandson of Saudi Arabia's founding monarch Abdulaziz and the son-in-law to the Saudi deputy defense minister, was found guilty of using his diplomatic status and a 727 jet belonging to the Saudi royal family to transport the cocaine. The United States has also indicted al-Shaalan with conspiracy to possess and distribute cocaine but does not have a policy of trying cases in absentia. In 2005, a U.S. court found two other members of the operation guilty and sentenced them each to 24 years in prison and to pay $25,000 in fines. Former Drug Enforcement Administration official Tom Raffanello, who oversaw the U.S. investigation of Prince Nayef al-Shaalan, applauded the sentence of the French court. "I think it is a great thing. I wish more countries would try criminals in absentia, when it's obvious they have avoided prosecution." The prince is said to be living in Saudi Arabia, which does not have an extradition treaty with the United States. It also does not have one with France. "Because of that we have to catch a break in order to catch him," said Raffanello. Prince Nayef al-Shaalan has denied the smuggling charges and claims he has been cleared of any wrongdoing by the Saudi government.
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You must be reading and comprehension Challenged.
did you not read the part where I mentioned that all nations have a segment of their society that is addicted.
But in Iran this segment is almost 6%+ of their Population.
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yeah @Pakistanisage sadly . some i know doing this always say "like this they forget"
drug, drinking, and so... to forget
the worst i can see is abotu these afghan kids sniffing glue (in Iran).. when i say kids i mean small kids (12-15 yo)
that's a huge problem in Iran
even there are even worst problems nowadays in Iran (medics more and more impossible to find or too too expensive that even the salary doesn't allow to buy one medic)
drug, drinking, and so... to forget
the worst i can see is abotu these afghan kids sniffing glue (in Iran).. when i say kids i mean small kids (12-15 yo)
that's a huge problem in Iran
even there are even worst problems nowadays in Iran (medics more and more impossible to find or too too expensive that even the salary doesn't allow to buy one medic)
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We do have a drug problem.
But what's the reason? Maybe having nearly 1,000 km border with Afghanistan, largest drug producer in the world, is a reason?
Why do you think Iran has largest discoveries of drugs in the world? Even more than, Mexico, Columbia and U.S? And yet, a huge amount of drugs are not discovered every year. Maybe Iran being the only route to smuggle drugs to Europe and Middle East is a reason? All of this happens because we are blessed to have a long border with Afghanistan and being their favorable route for transits to ME and Europe. No country is helping us to fight this huge drug trafficking and sitting there and blaming Iran while ignoring facts is simply not fair. According to Wikipedia:
As per UN drug report of 2011, Iran accounts for highest rate of opium and heroin seizure rates in the world, intercepting 89% of all seized opium in the world. Within a span of thirty years, 3700 Iranian police officers have been killed and tens of thousands more injured in counter narcotics operations mostly on Afghan and Pakistan borders.
See? We do have a huge drug problem and no one denies it. It has a huge negative impact on our society, who says otherwise?
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Why should Iranian soldiers die at the border with Afghanistan fighting these drug dealers??
we don't even get a Thank you.
UN doesn't even help, instead under USA and Israel's pressure they stopped helping Iran 10 years ago. Not to mention they put sanctions on Iran.
we don't even get a Thank you.
UN doesn't even help, instead under USA and Israel's pressure they stopped helping Iran 10 years ago. Not to mention they put sanctions on Iran.
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I would respectfully disagree with you. You claim that Iran has a Drug Problem because of its neighbours who produce these Drugs and smuggle them in Iran. My argument to you would be that these drugs are smuggled into Iran because there is a HUGE DEMAND FOR THESE DRUGS IN IRAN. We have a much bigger Border with Afghanistan than Iran has and yet we don't have 10% of our Population as Drug Addicts. Infact for a country with a Population of 200 million people our drug addicts may be less than 200,000 people which is less than 0.1% of our Population.
The issue is not availability or SUPPLY. The issue is huge DEMAND.
Pakistan has cyanide widely available through out Pakistan. But very few people choose to use it. So you have to understand the basic logic that SUPPLY DOES NOT PROMOTE USE OF DRUGS, DEMAND DOES. Supply simply shows up to meet the Demand.
So please do not blame Afghanistan or Pakistan for your drug issues.
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America and Nato are directly involved .
Afghanistan opium poppy cultivation, 1994–2007 (hectares)
Afghanistan opium poppy cultivation, 1994–2007 (hectares)
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