Iranian Drug Dealers Arrested in Armenia

[Mos]

Re: How does everyone feel about Israel?

USA is more to blame for drugs coming through Armenia than Iran is. The US eliminated the Taliban that had eradicated most drugs from the country on religious grounds and now drug production has soared whatever-thousand percent. Not only this but it fails to stop drug dealers at the root (Afghanistan) where it is produced and shipped from.

In the end of the day its Iranians who brought those drugs into Armenia - they didn't have to, but they did. All I'm saying is that we should be more careful who we allow to enter Armenia, especially through the South. This can be a joint Armenian-Iranian effort to make sure the border is secure and you don't have such trafficking going on.

[Federate]

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What is clear is that Iran does more than most other countries to stop drugs moving through its territory:

"Iran confiscates 93% of world narcotics production that comes from Afghanistan."

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=fcb_1214514268

USA is more to blame for drugs coming through Armenia than Iran is. The US eliminated the Taliban that had eradicated most drugs from the country on religious grounds and now drug production has soared whatever-thousand percent. Not only this but it fails to stop drug dealers at the root (Afghanistan) where it is produced and shipped from.

[Persopolis]

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I'm not saying that either government supports the drug trade - but comes to show that there are Iranians who come to Armenia for different purposes than just tourism - and this is not the first case.

What is clear is that Iran does more than most other countries to stop drugs moving through its territory:

"Iran confiscates 93% of world narcotics production that comes from Afghanistan."

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=fcb_1214514268

[Federate]

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I'm not saying that either government supports the drug trade - but comes to show that there are Iranians who come to Armenia for different purposes than just tourism - and this is not the first case.

Well, this is a general concern with all guests and not only Iranians. It even applies to Armenians visiting other countries. Drug dealing is stateless. Though what is safe to assume is that the overwheliming majority of all tourists coming to Armenia, including Iranians, are not drug dealers. Also drug dealers will less often register as officially have been in a different country and stay out of legal and normal sight to avoid detection.

[Mos]

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We're just as responsible for the drugs that come into Armenia as Iran is. Iranians cannot use Armenia as a transit route without having people from the inside help them out. I'm not talking about government officials necessarily, just Armenian drug dealers that accept the product into Armenia and approve its shipment to Europe.

For example, the cooperation between the Armenian and Iranian drug dealer at the Turkey border bust.

I'm not saying that either government supports the drug trade - but comes to show that there are Iranians who come to Armenia for different purposes than just tourism - and this is not the first case.

[KanadaHye]

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Seriously, Armenia doesn't need help from foreigners in running illegal mafia operations

[Federate]

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We're just as responsible for the drugs that come into Armenia as Iran is. Iranians cannot use Armenia as a transit route without having people from the inside help them out. I'm not talking about government officials necessarily, just Armenian drug dealers that accept the product into Armenia and approve its shipment to Europe.

For example, the cooperation between the Armenian and Iranian drug dealer at the Turkey border bust.

[Mos]

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Here you go Persopolis...

Armenia Arrests Iranians, Seizes Drugs Smuggled Via Turkey
BY TIMES.AM AT 14 FEBRUARY, 2010, 7:04 PM

Armenian law-enforcement officials have seized heroin and opium smuggled over the border with Turkey and arrested three Iranians in connection with the trafficking incidents, RFE/RL’s Armenian Service reports.

In one incident on February 8, authorities said, about seven kilograms of heroin were found in a car driven by Hovannes Davtian, a Russian citizen of Armenian descent, who was accompanied by Iranian Mostafa Advai.

Police said in a statement that a drug trafficker in Turkey threw the heroin over the barbed-wire fence along the Armenian border, and that Advai picked it up. It said both Advai and Davtian were arrested near the closed border, which is guarded by Russian troops.

Another Iranian, Hossein Tazeh Kand, was arrested in the same area earlier on February 8. Authorities said police found about five kilograms of opium in his car.

Prosecutors estimate the total street value of all of the seized drugs is around $2 million and that about a dozen people have been arrested. Police said at least three of the detainees are Iranian.

A number of Iranian nationals are already serving prison sentences in Armenia on drug-related charges. Iran is believed to be the main source of drugs smuggled into the countr

Iranian citizen ran illegal hotel in Yerevan

March 12, 2011 | 16:42
The officers of the operational investigative department of Armenian State Revenue Committee received information that an illegal hotel is operating on Baghramyan Avenue in Arabkir administrative district of Yerevan.

As a result of operational investigative activities, it was found out that an illegally operating hotel is not registered at the taxation service and belongs to Iranian citizen Alirez Mohammad Khosrov Abadi, the press service of State Revenue Committee informed Armenian News-NEWS.am.

[Persopolis]

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keep out the Iranian hooligans that do illegal activities like drug trafficking.

You can thank the U.S. and Afghanistan for the drugs -- getting caught dealing or transporting drugs in Iran is one of the worst things anyone can do.
http://www.vancouverite.com/2010/12/...king-measures/

[londontsi]

Re: Iranian Drug Dealers Arrested in Armenia

wtf?

.... i think russian drug dealers are more active in armenia ....

I did not think drugs was a major social issue in Armenia.
As you say drug is an issue in every country.


Do you have any information as to how big this problem is in Armenia to attract big dealers.