Iran's Police seized about 1,000 kg of drugs and detained 14 smugglers in the last three days, the official IRNA news agency reported on Saturday.

In an announcement released by the Information and Media Communication Center of Iran's Police on Saturday, the police forces, in a number of operations in different parts of the country, "seized 918 kg of drugs...and detained 14 smugglers."

In November, Iran's Drug Control Headquarters (DCH) announced that Iran would seal all the borders of the country within two years to control drugs smuggling.

Secretary General of the DCH Ismail Ahmadi-Moqaddam said that Iran intended to end the flow of narcotics through the country in the near future, the report said.

"Tehran is prepared to train Afghan police in a bid to reduce drug cultivation in the country," he said.

Iran is located at the crossroad of international drug smuggling from Afghanistan, the world's top opium producer, to Europe.

The country has seized some 375 tons of narcotics in the past eight months and "it has also spent over 600 million U.S. dollars in the last two years to dig canals, build barriers and install barbed wire to seal off the country's borders."

Source: Xinhua