TEHRAN – The Intelligence Ministry announced on Sunday that its forces have seized one of the biggest hauls of heroin confiscated in recent years in the northwestern province of West Azerbaijan.

In a statement, the Intelligence Ministry said the drug shipment weighs 1,075 kilograms and is estimated to cost around 4,000 billion rials, Tasnim reported.

The shipment was detected at the Bazargan border region in northwest Iran before an international drug ring could smuggle it into Europe, it stated.

The smugglers had adroitly hidden the illicit drugs inside export commodities, the statement added.

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