Independent daily wrote that the heroin smuggled to Iraq comes through Iran’s border.
Independent added that previously Iraq was not a consumer of heroin, but today smuggling heroin in Iraq is carried out by the Iranian regime through Basra and is quickly exported to the markets of the Persian Gulf countries.

According to this daily, this smuggling is carried out by the militias affiliated to the Iranian regime.
Independent also wrote that planting poppy from which the nicotics are drawn has been esclating in Iraq.