U.S. Treasury IDs Iran general as drug kingpin

By World Tribune on March 11, 2012   Afghanistan, Exclusives, Hamas, Hizbullah, Iran, Mideast, Stateside, Top Stories, U.S. Intelligence  

Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The U.S. Treasury Department has imposed sanctions on Gen. Gholamreza Baghbani, an officer in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Baghbani, assigned to IRGC’s Quds Force, was said to have overseen drug trafficking from Afghanistan through Iran in cooperation with Taliban. “Today’s action exposes IRGC-QF involvement in trafficking narcotics, made doubly […]