Kabul - AFP
Washington on Wednesday named a general in Iran\'s elite al-Quds force as a key figure in trafficking heroin from Afghanistan. The US Treasury designated Gen. Gholamreza Baghbani, who runs the Revolutionary Guards\' Quds force office in Zahedan near the Afghan border, as a narcotics \"kingpin\" for facilitating Afghan drug runners to move opiates into and through Iran, as well helping ship weapons to the Taliban.