Iran has executed nearly 2,000 drug dealers and traffickers...
Iran has executed nearly 2,000 drug dealers and traffickers since 1989
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.