Investigating the Impact of Drug smuggling on I.R. Iran's National Security

Because of being adjacent to the world’s biggest drug producers on the eastern borderline, being located on the cheap transit path of drugs, and insisting on certain ideological positions providing national security in Iran is affected by drug smuggling. The present research aims at determining the impact of drug smuggling on various dimensions of I. R. Iran’s national security-political, economic, social and cultural dimensions.

The present research is conducted through documented and survey method and through using note–taking and questionnaire. Validity of the self-made questionnaire is proved by Cronbach’s Alpha formula (α=0.88); in addition the hypotheses of the research were tested by χ2 Test. The statistical population includes President’s Office Anti-narcotics HQs staff in 2009.

Analysis of the collected data, confirms the relationship between drug smuggling and Iran’s national security. The four hypotheses of the research based on negative impressionability of political, social, cultural and economic dimensions of national security by drug smuggling is confirmed (95%).

Drug smuggling had the most negative impact on cultural aspect of security through preventing human development while it had the least negative impacts on economic security, which is crystallized in increasing policing –legal costs. The negative impact of drug smuggling in terms of social aspect emerges through crime rate increase; and in terms of politics blemishes the political credit of the system in the region, as well as international system.