When finished, the Trans-Iranian will jog south 865 miles through the middle of the country it serves, joining the Caspian Sea with the Persian Gulf. U. S. and German firms began the line in 1927 ...

Opium addiction spread, and its victims included Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius. Around 1000 AD, Persian physician Avicenna developed standard opium doses the size of chickpeas.

AT the Eighteenth Session of the League of Nations Advisory Committee on Opium, held in May 1934, the American representative, Mr. Stuart J. Fuller, drew attention to the dangerous situation which ...

Of opium, fire temples, and sarees: A peek into the world of India's dwindling Parsis. Story by Cherylann Mollan ... a Persian king who was the founder of the Achaemenid empire.

A 41-year-old Ashdod resident was arrested in Netanya on Wednesday on suspicion of smuggling opium inside Persian lemons into Israel from Iran, Army Radio reported.

The image of China as an opium slave was the starting point for an international ‘war on drugs’ which, over a century later, is still being fought today. Opium smokers, China, c.1880 ...

Opium is a white, milky substance that, after extracted from the Opium Poppy, can be used to produce morphine, ... Persian, Arabic, Indian, and Chinese. Maxal Tamor/Shutterstock.com.

The Opium Poppy Control Act of 1942 tried to prevent Americans from growing poppies altogether, but it was difficult to enforce, and the act was repealed in 1970.

The production of opium in Myanmar has flourished since the military's seizure of power as the faltering economy has led more people toward the drug trade, according to a new United Nations report.

One orchard-turned-poppy field means little on the broader scale of Afghanistan’s opium output, the largest in the world, accounting for more than 80 percent of the world’s supply, according ...