TEHRAN – The Iranian police have confiscated 1.18 tons of opium in the central province of Yazd during the past 24 hours, a provincial anti-narcotics official announced on Monday.

Mohammad Hossein Sotoodehnia, chief of the anti-drug office in Yazd province, said five drug traffickers have also been arrested, IRNA reported.

He added that the drug traffickers planned to transfer the opium from south of Iran to Yazd Province and then transport it to other cities across the country.

Drug combat squads seized over 30 tons of illicit drugs in the central province of Yazd in the last Iranian year (ended March 20, 2018).

MH/PA