Iran’s police chief Ahmadreza Radan has announced that the Taliban has not been serious in its counter-narcotics efforts and has only issued statements about fighting drugs.
According to Radan, drug cultivation in Afghanistan has increased by 32 percent which is alarming.
On Monday, the police chief of Iran addressed a conference on countering narcotics and said that along with opium production, the increase in the production of industrial substances is another dangerous trend that indicates the rise of challenges in counter-narcotics efforts.
According to Iran's state-run news agencies, Radan urged all countries to cooperate in the fight against narcotics and offered Iran’s experience in anti-drugs efforts.
The Chief of Police of Iran, in the meantime, said that recently Pakistan has performed better in the fight against drugs.
Earlier, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, in a new report announced that Afghanistan produced about 80% of the world's opium in 2022. The report stated that Afghanistan has become one of the major producers of methamphetamine in the region too.
