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With that five-minute trial, Ayatullah Sadegh Khalkhali, Iran's notorious "hanging judge," dispensed summary justice to five more accused drug traffickers. In just six weeks, Khalkhali's firing squads have executed 120 convicted opium and heroin dealers...
...Iranian heroin problem has assumed runaway proportions. According to government figures, there are now 3 million addicts, nearly one in every twelve Iranians. Reason: in the 16 chaotic months since the fall of the Shah, police enforcement has been spotty at best, and narcotics rings have been able to operate at will. Thus the habit that was once peculiar to Iran's upper classes, and gripped members of the Shah's own family, has filtered down through Iranian society. Says a high school teacher in Tehran, appalled at the extent of addiction among his students: "Heroin and opium...
Cheap, high-potency Iranian heroin has also been turning up in increasing quantities in the U.S. and Western Europe. In fact, Iran and the rest of Southwest Asia are fast becoming the world's leading producers of the drug, surpassing Mexico and the Golden Triangle of Southeast Asia. Lacking Tehran's cooperation in containing the traffic, Western drug-enforcement agencies have concentrated on tracing and stopping shipments after they leave Iran...
They are having some success. Using Farsi-speaking agents to track smugglers, U.S. narcotics officers have confiscated heroin with a street value of some $94 million in the past five months. French police two weeks ago arrested Jean Jehan, the "silver fox," who had figured in the French-connection narcotics ring and had recently resurfaced in the Southwest Asian traffic...
...high as 60% and likely to grow as the recession hits small businesses, which form the backbone of the city's economy. Roaming the streets, older youths fall easily into the only readily available "jobs": peddling drugs, pimping, prostitution, mugging, selling stolen goods, running numbers. Once in decline, heroin use is on the rise again...