Over 400,000 drug addicts were arrested in Iran during the past two and a half years, said Tuesday an Iranian official. In a press statement, the Chairman of Iran Narcotics Control Headquarters (INCH) Brigadier Mahdi Aboyi said during the same period 177,000 drug-dealers were arrested, adding that 23,496 of them were apprehended during confrontations along the Iranian-Afghan common-borders. While saying that authorities had managed to eradicate an international drug-trafficking network in Bushehr and arresting five of its members, he pointed out that 369 drug dealers were killed and 419 tons of drugs were confiscated during that period.