(Iran Commentary) The Sri Lankan Police Narcotics Bureau learned of the actual owners of the heroin consignment seized on March 24 and arrested Brig.-Gen. Mohammad Massoud Zahedian, Iran's Anti-Narcotics Police Chief, and Col. Mohammad Bakhshandeh, chief of Tehran's Anti-Narcotics Police, at Colombo's airport. According to a senior official of the Khatam al-Anbia Construction Company in Iran - known to be linked to the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) - the state police of Iran, NAJA, has been resorting to smuggling narcotics recently for money-laundering purposes.
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