Al Quds general key in Afghan heroin traffic: US

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 Aghan drug runners to move opiates into and through Iran, as well helping ship weapons to the Taliban.