(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Ejeii said the terrorists were arrested along with 300 kilograms of explosives, waistband arms, and other kinds of small arms and light weapons, stressing that the terrorist operatives in southeastern Iran use drug money to fund their operations inside the country.
Speaking to reporters, Iran's prosecutor-general said terrorist groups smuggle drug into Iran from the neighboring countries in a bid to fund their terrorist operations.
Iran's eastern neighbors Pakistan and Afghanistan are among the world's foremost opium producers.
Despite Iran's continued campaign and border skirmishes and blockings, terrorists escape to Pakistan after conducting their terrorist operations, mostly in the Southeastern Sistan and Balouchestan province.
The group staged a terrorist bomb blast in the Southeastern port city of Chabahar on Wednesday, killing 47 civilians and wounding 93 others.
According to Hojjatoleslam Ejeii two of them had smuggled drugs into Iran and that the Iranian police had seized around 1,000kg of opium from them.
Meantime, asked about Iran's efforts to help protesting British students, who are subjected to harsh treatment by British police just because they protest against increase of university tuition fees, the Iranian official said the Islamic Republic does not interfere in other countries' internal affairs. Ejeii further expressed surprised that those who claim to be advocates of human rights are imposing different kinds of political and economic pressures on others.
Dozens of British students have been wounded and detained so far in the streets of various cities across Britain.
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