NCRI – The Iranian Resistance strongly condemns the killing and injuring tens of citizens of Afghanistan by the clerical regime’s repressive forces in Iran-Afghanistan border region.
The French news agency Agence France-Presse quoted the Foreign Ministry spokesman of Afghanistan that on Friday (May 10) as saying that the Iranian regime’s “border guards killed 10 Afghans and injured 12 others… During past months, 23 other Afghans have been killed at Iran-Afghanistan border.”
Furthermore, the clerical regime in Iran has so far executed a high number of Afghans on the charge of drug trafficking.
According to a report by Amnesty International, “Officials from the Iranian Supreme Court had told … that 5, 630 Afghans were in prison with more than 3,000 sentenced to death.”
“An Iranian prison official later confirmed that over 4,000 Afghan nationals are being held in Iranian jails. He admitted it was possible that the figure of 3,000 Afghans on death row was accurate since the majority of the prisoners were convicted of drugs-related charges,” Amnesty International reported on May 2010.
This is while drug-trafficking is mainly controlled by IRGC commanders and regime’s intelligence agents.
Quoting a confidential report by the U.S. Embassy in Azerbaijan capital Baku, German daily Die Welt reported on May 14, 2011: “ Iranian regime’s security forces… are involved in drug trafficking. Iranian regime purchases a great amount of Afghanistan raw opium and turns it into heroin… IRGC’s income from smuggling narcotics to Europe soars to billions of Euros.”
General Gholamreza Baghbani, a commander of the Iranian regime’s Qods Force, has been designated by the U.S. Department of Treasury as a Specially Designated Narcotics Trafficker providing assistance to terrorism.
According to U.S. Treasury statement, “General Gholamreza Baghbani is an IRGC-QF officer and the current chief of the IRGC-QF office in Zahedan, Iran in southeastern Iran, near the Afghan border. General Baghbani allowed Afghan narcotics traffickers to smuggle opiates through Iran in return for assistance.”
The statement adds, “Afghan narcotics traffickers moved weapons to the Taliban on behalf of Baghbani. In return, General Baghbani has helped facilitate the smuggling of heroin precursor chemicals through the Iranian border. He also helped facilitate shipments of opium into Iran.”(U.S. Treasury press release, 7 March 2012)
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
May 14, 2013
