U.S. says Iranian general key in Afghan heroin trade
Wednesday, 07 March 2012
The Quds force is the shadowy special operations unit of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards. (File photo)
Washington on Wednesday named a general in Iran’s elite al-Quds force as a key figure in trafficking heroin from Afghanistan.
The U.S. Treasury designated Gen. Gholamreza Baghbani, who runs the Revolutionary Guards’ Quds force office in Zahedan near the Afghan-Pakistan border, as a narcotics “kingpin” for facilitating Aghan drugrunners to move opiates into and through Iran.
In return, the smugglers helped move weapons for the Taliban from Iran “on behalf of Baghbani,” the Treasury said in a statement.
It said that Baghbani had also aided the smuggling of chemicals used to make heroin through the Iranian border into Afghanistan.
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