{"id":224601,"date":"2026-07-27T11:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T11:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/224601\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T11:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T11:21:08","slug":"iraq-seizes-16-8-tonnes-of-drugs-dismantles-trafficking-network-shafaq-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/224601\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq seizes 16.8 tonnes of drugs, dismantles trafficking network &#8211; Shafaq News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-07-27T11:00:53+00:00<\/p>\n<p>                                    font<\/p>\n<p>                                            Enable Reading Mode<\/p>\n<p>\n                                        A-<br \/>\n                                        A<br \/>\n                                        A+\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>Shafaq News- Al-Sulaymaniyah<\/p>\n<p>Iraqi authorities declared on Monday seizing 16.8 tonnes of narcotics since 2023, dismantling an international trafficking network, and securing hundreds of death and life sentences against convicted drug traffickers.<\/p>\n<p>During a joint press conference by the Iraqi Interior Ministry and the Kurdistan Region Security Agency (Asayish), Interior Ministry spokesperson Brigadier Abbas Bahadli said the latest operation dismantled a network that used Iraq as a transit route to smuggle narcotics and psychotropic substances into a neighbouring country. Authorities seized 38 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine concealed inside vehicle tyres and arrested members of the group.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2023, Iraqi courts have issued 380 death sentences, 150 life sentences, and 190 international arrest warrants in drug trafficking cases.<\/p>\n<p>Bahadli added that Iraq has opened 16 rehabilitation centres for drug users, treating about 9,500 people, more than 8,000 of whom have completed rehabilitation programmes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-07-27T11:00:53+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Al-Sulaymaniyah Iraqi authorities declared on Monday seizing 16.8&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[152,64295,18408,94,64294,362,25368],"class_list":["post-224601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iraq","tag-breaking","tag-dismantles-trafficking-network","tag-drugs","tag-iraq","tag-iraq-seizes-16-8-tonnes-of-drugs","tag-kurdistan","tag-trafficking"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116991681171897405","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}