Iran Smuggled Commodities Increase By More Than Half

According to Khorshidi, smuggling accounts for a quarter of Iran's total imports. He said mid-March that he believed the rate of smuggling was expected to decline 20% to $12-13 billion in the last Iranian year from $15.5 billion two years ago.Statistics on last year's smuggling have yet to be released by the officials.“This year (March 2016-17), some 400 smuggling rings were disbanded,” he was also quoted as saying by Mehr News Agency then.