TEHRAN, Iran—Iran's state TV says the country's border police
have confiscated over 11 tons of narcotics after fierce clashes
with drug traffickers in southeastern Iran, the biggest single
consignment ever seized in Iran's war against drugs.  It quoted
provincial border police chief, Gen. Qolam Nabi Kouhkan, as
saying Saturday that the various narcotics were seized from
traffickers Friday night.  One of the drug traffickers was
killed and several others injured in the armed clashes that took
place on Iran's border with Pakistan.  Kouhkan said the
operation was helped by tips from locals, and that traffickers
had carried the drugs on camels from Pakistan.  Iran lies on a
major drug route between Afghanistan and Europe, as well as the
Persian Gulf states, where the confiscation of large amounts of
narcotics is common.