Iran has executed nearly 2,000 drug dealers and traffickers...
Iran has executed nearly 2,000 drug dealers and traffickers since 1989
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Iran has executed nearly 2,000 drug dealers and traffickers since 1989. Some 1.2 million Iranians are addicted to drugs, mostly opium, in a country of 60 million, according to official statistics. But the head of an anti-AIDS campaign group has put the number of drug addicts at 3.6 million.
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