Iran Has Highest Opium Addiction Rate in the World

But… but I thought these Based Persians were the Master Race?

Wikipedia:

Opium in Iran is widely available, and the country was thought to have the highest per capita number of opiate addicts in the world[1][2] at a rate of 2.8% of Iranians over age 15. The Iranian government estimates the number of addicts at 2 million.[3] Opium and heroin from Afghanistan and Pakistan—known collectively as the Golden Crescent—pass through Iran’s eastern borders in large amounts.[3]

Total annual opium intercepts by the Iranian authorities are larger than in any other country.[4] The Iranian government admits that they can only intercept a tiny proportion of the thousands of tonnes that are trafficked through Iran every year.[3] Opium costs far less in Iran than in the West,[3] and is cheaper than beer.[2]

In Zahedan, an Iranian town near the Pakistani border, 3 grams of opium can be purchased for 10,000 Iranian rials, equivalent to $1 USD, and 1 kg costs the equivalent of $330.[5] In Zabol, $1 buys 5 grams of Afghan opium.[5] According to official Iranian government reports, within Tehran the daily consumption of opium is 4 metric tons.[6] According to UNODC estimates, 450 metric tons of opium are consumed in Iran each year.[7]

Irish Times:

Amir telephones his mother and married siblings every month. “They know I’m a drug addict and they’re very upset. I don’t tell them where I am. I ask, ‘How’s life with you?’ and I lie and tell them that I’m in a good place and that I don’t miss them.” How long has it been since he’s seen his mother, I ask. Amir pauses for a long moment. “Eight years!” He exclaims. He is laughing, but tears well up in his eyes. “I prefer not to talk about it,” he says.

Amir is one of millions in Iran whose lives have been devastated by drug use. The UN drug office estimates that 2.2 per cent of the population are addicts, the highest addiction rate in the world. But Abbas Deylamizade, the director of Rebirth, Iran’s largest non-governmental organisation (NGO) devoted to addiction treatment, believes up to five million Iranians are hooked, with millions more occasional users.

Smoking opium is a tradition. In Kerman, for example, guests are greeted with an opium pipe. Drug use affects all strata of Iranian society. I once interviewed an ageing intellectual whose friends gathered every day in his beautiful north Tehran home to smoke opium. The more dangerous shishehis especially popular among youths. Amir pays 100,000 riyals (€2.50) for every fix of heroin or crystal meth.

The drugs come from neighbouring Afghanistan, which shares a 560-mile border with Iran. Afghanistan produced 5,500 tonnes of opium in 2013, making it the world’s leading source. The Iranians have built trenches, barbed wire fences and canals, but they are victims of their location on the transit route to Europe.

KayhamLife:

One in every three Iranians receives treatment for drug addiction, according to Hamidreza Sarami, the managing director of the Research and Education Department of the Iran Drug Control Headquarters. There are almost daily reports in the Iranian press about the alarming rate of drug use, the arrest of addicts and the execution of smugglers in the country.

Various government agencies have published contradictory reports on the number of drug addicts in Iran. According to Iran’s Welfare Organization, there are two million addicts in the country. However, Iran Drug Control Headquarters puts the number at four million.

Easy access to a wide range of controlled substances at a relatively low cost has contributed to rampant drug use among Iranian youth.

Parviz Afshar, the spokesman for the Drug Control Headquarters, said: “The four million figure includes people who have tried a controlled substance only once in their lives. However, nearly 2.9 million people are habitual drug users.”

Ali Hashemi, the former secretary-general of the Drug Control Headquarters (during President Mohammad Khatami’s second term 2001-2015), recently said: “At least 15 to 20 million families face this problem. We can’t hide the truth. More than 100 people become addicted to drugs every day.”

Times of Israel:

Iran is breaking bad.

Officials say methamphetamine production and abuse of hard drugs are skyrocketing in the country despite potentially lethal criminal penalties for users if they are caught. The increase is partly because of Iran’s status as the gateway for the region’s top drug exporter, Afghanistan — and partly because Iranian dealers are profiting so handsomely from sales to overstressed students and exhausted double-jobbers.

Ghazal Tolouian, a psychologist who treats dozens of meth addicts at a therapy camp in a mountain village northwest of Tehran, says most of her clients fall into two categories: students “who want to pass university entrance exams successfully,” and “people who have to work a second and third shift to make ends meet and earn more money.”

Anti-narcotics and medical officials say more than 2.2 million of Iran’s 80 million citizens already are addicted to illegal drugs, including 1.3 million on registered treatment programs. They say the numbers keep rising annually, even though use of the death penalty against convicted smugglers has increased, too, and now accounts for more than nine of every 10 executions.

Parviz Afshar, an anti-narcotics official, said for every lab they detect, two more might spring up, often involving small-scale “cooks” operating in residences where meth production is particularly hard to detect. He said police found and destroyed at least 416 meth labs in the 12-month period up to March, up from 350 in the previous 12-month period.

Iran’s health ministry was slow to finance rehabilitation clinics nationwide, but a growing network of private camps has sprung up that partly receive state financing, some of them run by former or recovering addicts.

No, no, no.

This is all CIA propaganda and lies, right goyim?

Persians are an infallible master race who we must idolize.

Eric Abdullah Striker and Mullah Enoch tell us so.