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Azerbaijan's SBS: Armenia and Iran gained a lot of income from drug trafficking from our territories

07 April 2023 16:25 (UTC +04:00)

"Before the Patriotic War, a large proportion of drug smuggling accounted for the 132-kilometer occupied section of the Azerbaijani-Iranian state border," deputy head of the State Border Service (SBS) for operational and search work, Firuz Shirinzada said in an interview with APA.

He noted that our border territories, which were under occupation before the great victory we won in the Patriotic War, were used for mass drug trafficking before the war . Drugs were transported from Iran to Armenia through these territories. From this activity, which was carried out jointly with Armenia, both Armenia and Iran received large profits. The law enforcement agencies of our country have revealed numerous facts related to this. The fact that, under the leadership of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Ilham Aliyev, the Azerbaijani border guards, having shown great courage, restored our control over the state border with Iran with battles, contributed to the suppression of large regional drug trafficking," he said.