Iran: notorious Ministry of Intelligence orchestrating drug mafia of Gohardasht Prison

Narcotics are a weapon in the hands of the ruling mullahs to implement even further crackdown

It has been years that inmates have from inside Iran’s infamous prisons reported regime elements have turned prisoners into a source of income through selling drugs. Of course, the state-controlled prison management is engaged in this dirty and inhumane business with two different objectives. First, weakening and eliminating any ability and/or will to protest and resist inside Iran’s dungeons; second, providing a hugely profitable source of income for the regime through selling narcotics to the large number of prisoners taken captive by the mullahs’ crackdown apparatus.

 According to published reports from inside Iran’s prisons received recently, Dariush Amirian, a senior official in Gohardasht Prison in Karaj, west of Tehran, and a known Ministry of Intelligence member, is one of the main drug suppliers to this prison.

The group working for Amirian sells and distributes narcotics amongst the prisoners through an inmate by the name of Shaheen Habibi. He was arrested by a rival group, working for the counterintelligence unit in Gohardasht Prison. In his confessions he said he received the drugs from Amirian and would sell them to the prisoners. Habibi is currently released from prison and continues to sell drugs amongst prisoners in Gohardasht Prison under the careful eye of the regime’s mafia.

Amirian carries out orders issued by the Ministry of Intelligence in Gohardasht Prison. Senior regime officials remaining silent and stepping aside in the face of the phenomenon of addicting more and more prisoners inside the regime’s dungeons will never fool anyone. With the intense security atmosphere imposed inside the prisons no single individual can be the source of procuring and selling narcotics, especially on a wide-scale basis.