Sixty tons of narcotics go up in flames in Tehran (epa)
June 26, 2006 -- Police in Tehran have set ablaze 60 tons of illicit drugs. The bulk of the drugs were opium and morphine.
The country's police chief, General Ismail Ahmadi-Moqaddam, said nearly 300 tons of drugs had been confiscated and more than 370 traffickers arrested between March 2005 and March 2006.
Iran is a key transit country for drugs en route from Afghanistan and Pakistan to Europe.
(dpa)