TEHRAN, Jun 8 - Prominent Conservative politicians, who are competing to become the next British prime minister, have come forward to say how they used banned drugs like cocaine, cannabis and opium.
TEHRAN, December 13 - The Afghan government has increased saffron production by 22 percent this year as part of a plan to create an alternative source of income for farmers dependent on opium poppy cultivation.
TEHRAN, December 13 - Iran’s anti-narcotics police forces have managed to capture more than 4,000 kilograms of opium in the southeastern province of Sistan and Balouchestan, a provincial police commander announced.
TEHRAN, September 05 -Scientists who decoded the opium poppy genome say the breakthrough might improve production of the plant to provide a cheap, reliable supply of pain relievers and other medications.
TEHRAN – Iranian Interior Minister Abdorrahman Rahmani Fazli has expressed Tehran’s readiness to help replace Afghanistan’s poppy cultivation farmlands with alternative crops.
Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan reached a record high in 2013 as farmers seek to "insure" themselves ahead of NATO forces' withdrawal next year, the United Nations said Wednesday.