Iran airports to be equipped with body scanners

"International Iranian airports all have been equipped with sniffer dogs, body scanners and etc.," General Ahmadi-Moqaddam said in a meeting with Indonesia's National Narcotics Agency chief, Brigadier General Gories Mere, on Wednesday.

Ahmadi-Moqaddam said that the security measure is aimed at tackling drug problems.

He said that psychedelic drugs are imported to Iran from Europe, adding, "The United States is making efforts to export such drugs to Iran in an attempt to promote insecurity in the country."

The Iranian official further pointed to the poppy cultivation in neighboring Afghanistan and said, "Over the past few years, poppy cultivation in Afghanistan has reached nearly 9,000 tons a year."

"Unfortunately, the price of drugs in Iran has reduced because it is the neighbor of Afghanistan and located between the Persian Gulf and Europe," he further explained.

According to General Ahmadi-Moqaddam, 3,600 Iranians have lost their lives in the war on drugs.

General Gories Mere, for his part, said that Indonesia was determined to combat drug smuggling.

Iran, the world's leading drug fighter, makes 85 percent of the world's total opium seizures.

/Press TV/