The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights announced that the Iranian militias are working in the eastern Deir Ezzor governorate to produce narcotic substances, including "Captagon and the cultivation of hashish", with the wide participation of Hezbollah militias.

Iranian militias are trying to finance their presence on Syrian territory through the production, trade and promotion of drugs in Deir ez-Zor.

According to the investigation, seven factories belonging to the militia were found, a building near the electrical and mechanical engineering building on Port Said Street near Bahra Afrah in the al-Qusour area of ​​Deir ez-Zor city, and a primitive factory next to the workers’ neighborhood in Deir ez-Zor, and the teachers’ garden, a factory in the Khans area in al-Mayadin, east of Deir ez-Zor. And the belt area in Albukamal, and a factory on Al-Filat Street

The actual number of factories is also higher, but it is difficult to reveal all of them due to the severe security of the Iranian militias and the spread of clandestine laboratories, especially since the Iranian militias grow hashish on the lands of some of the displaced from the villages of Saalo and Zubari, east of Deir ez-Zor, and other lands known as “state farms” in The same countryside.

The report also clarified a number of militias involved in the management of this factory and others, including the Lebanese Hezbollah militia, the Iraqi Hezbollah militia, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard militia, the Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq militia of the Iraqi army, and the Popular Mobilization, "from the Abdal militia, the National Defense Militia, and the Division's militia. The fourth of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization.

In addition to the "Army of Clans" militia, which includes armed men from the "Al-Baqara, Al-Bosraya and Al-Shaitat" clans.

The tasks of the militias range from roads, raw materials, inspection, protection, promotion and smuggling to the areas of influence of the SDF militias, and then sending drugs from Syria through Iraqi territory.

It is worth noting that the Iranian militias supply Deir ez-Zor with drugs from Qusair or the Lebanese border areas in the Damascus countryside, all of which are under the control of "Hezbollah", but a shift from supply to production within the province after the increasing importance of Deir ez-Zor in recent months, according to the same source.