“Today, military threats are no longer taken as serious because global arrogance knows it is incapable of militarily confronting Iran; therefore; they have turned to soft war,” Mohammad-Najjar said. According to the official, the “latest information” reveals that the Americans buy up natural heroin at higher-than-market prices from Afghan drug traffickers to distribute crack and heroin in Iran. He didn’t say where he got that “latest information.” The annual UN drug report says the bulk of the drugs from Afghanistan originate in areas under Taliban control.