Posted on 12/11/2010 11:38:20 PM PST by gandalftb
Kabul, Dec 12, IRNA – A big rehabilitation center named “ Great Prophet” kicked off its work here on Saturday in the presence of Iran and Afghanistan ministers of Labor and Social Affairs.
The center, which was financed by Iran, was built in 30 months. The center was built by Iran’s Social Welfare Organization and is equipped with modern instruments as well as skilled manpower. In the inauguration ceremony, Iran’s minister of Labor and Social Affairs Abdulreza Sheikh-ol-Islami, Head of SWO Ahmad Esfandiari, Iran’s Ambassador to Kabul Fadahossein Maleki, officials from Imam Relief Committee as well as Afghanistan Minister of Labor Ameneh Afzali and a number of officials from Labor Ministry were present.
“The Iranian nation and government will always support the Afghan people," Sheikh-ol-Islami said after the inauguration ceremony. Since 2002, Tehran has given $670 million to Afghanistan.
With every American drop of blood and tax dollar, remember whose sandbox we're in, and whom will be running the sandbox when we're gone.
I was under the impression that Iran’s heroin problem was easily as big as Afghanistan’s.
If Biden actually gets Zero on an amendment 25, watch him flee to Iran...
right out of OBL’s play book
I know that under the Shaw, Iranians could be shot on sight for using opium. They had to be over a certain age...elderly, and have a registration card to be exempt from punishment.
It’s how they dealt with an overwhelming drug problem.
Don’t know anymore....
The reason being that most of the opium base is taken to Iran for processing into heroin and then transport. More Iranians are exposed to opiates hence the higher addiction rates.
The punishment for opiate trafficking is still death by hanging. Many dozens are hung all over Iran every month. There is only one exception, if the opiates are clearly only intended for kaffirs, unbelievers.
the opiates are clearly only intended for kaffirs, unbelievers.
Oh, am I glad to know that!
Obviously, their drug interdiction program isn’t making the problem go away.
My husband works with an Iranian physician nearly 80yrs old.
He is a wonderful doc, and a privelage to know. We’ve discussed the generations coming up, “yearning to breath free.”
Y’know, I’ve been wondering about that connection for some years now. We’ve been hearing plenty about the Opium trade in Afghanistan but never about where it goes to be turned into happy dust and thence distributed. I always wondered if it was Pakistan or Iran. So if it’s Iran does that mean Iran is a narco-state? That the Ayatollahs and IRGC are drug traffickers? Such a huge amount of product can’t be moved and processed without a state sponsor.
The Guards and Baseeji Militia don't want Iranians addicted either. The opiate traffic is supposed to involve manufacturing the base into heroin and morphine and then just moving product.
The Guards and Baseeji lose control because many of the workers are partly paid in heroin as cash is tightly controlled. Iran has a significant barter system.
When the opiates are transferred from carrier to carrier and when they pass through some local warlords territory there is road tax, etc. that all drains off a percentage to the locals.
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