TEHRAN (FNA)- The Iranian Law Enforcement Police have seized 120.82 kg of illicit drugs in four operations in the country"s southern province of Hormozgan, a provincial police commander announced on Tuesday.
Mohammad Sadeq Jabbarpour, the commander of the Law Enforcement police of the city of Khamir, told FNA that his forces have seized a motorcycle and three cars during the operations.
Jabbarpour pointed out that major seizures have been made in three of the four operations all at the Serah-e-Ganji checkpoint.
In the first operation, 40.82 kg of opium, skillfully planted in a tanker, was discovered, he said, adding that two more opium cargoes, weighing 49.6 kg and 20.26 kg of were discovered and seized in two other operations at the same checkpoint.
Earlier on January, Commander of the anti-drug squad of Iran"s Law Enforcement Police announced that his forces had discovered over 340 tons of different types of illicit drugs in nine months of operations across the country.
"More than 340 tons of drugs have been seized all over Iran in the past nine months," General Hamid Reza Hossein-Abadi said.
During the past Iranian year (ended on March 20,) Iran has seized more than 1,000 tons of opium smuggled from Afghanistan, the largest producer of opium poppy in the world.