Psychoactive Drug Consumption by Suppressive Forces
The nationwide protests we have witnessed for approximately 3 months, as well as the massive killings that have occurred recently in Kurdish cities and other cities in Iran, indicate the consumption of psychoactive substances by suppressive forces.
Recently, videos have gone viral through social media platforms by citizens, indicating drug consumption by suppressive forces. A resident from Mashhad states: “Suppressive forces use drugs and sniff them in each other’s faces.”
The massive killings that have occurred throughout Iran with such cruelty (shooting at people with military bullets, killing children, killing ordinary non-protesting people, attacking homes with military bullets, destroying people’s property, etc.) indicate that suppressive personnel are not psychologically normal. A normal human being, no matter how cruel, cannot be so hardhearted as to pick up military weapons and spray people with gunfire without considering whether the person being killed is a child or not. A normal and rational person, even if cold-hearted, would still think before taking action about what consequences his actions might have. Some social media users in various cities, particularly Tehran, had pointed out the “abnormal state of some suppression officers.”
According to Peak Iran, following the raid by special forces and plainclothes officers into a hospital in Gorgan, Dr. Hashem Mousavi, the director of the hospital who was himself injured in the attack, stated: “Some of the forces really appeared to be in a particular psychological state, so aggressive and trigger-happy that if they saw someone, they would strike them with batons in such a manner that even their own commanders had difficulty controlling them.”
Reports from people in various cities tell a similar story. People from Mashhad and Tehran have stated that with our own eyes we have seen them consume drugs during suppression and sniff them in each other’s faces; however, unfortunately we did not have the opportunity to take photos or videos. Eyewitnesses say that upon seeing these scenes, we were reminded of World War II, during which one of the countries that gave hallucinogenic drugs to its soldiers to make them delirious and gain great strength so they could fight to the death was Japan. According to people, the suppressors have certainly used hallucinogenic drugs that could make them hardhearted and thus attack people mercilessly and butcher them without any guilt.
Dariush Mand explains in a tweet about a psychoactive drug called “Captagon.” It is said that Captagon, produced in Syria, which in recent decades has been consumed in large quantities by ISIS fighters, differs greatly from the 1980s version and instead of two main elements, uses “methamphetamine” and “caffeine,” both of which are highly addictive stimulants. Modern Captagon, like any other heavy addictive substance, can lead to irreversible changes in the part of the brain that governs “impulse control” and “judgment power” and can deprive a person of the ability to “reason” or “logical thinking.” Captagon is also known among Western media as the “drug of Syria’s war” or “the drug of mujahideen.”
This psychoactive drug was widely produced in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Syria. Since the coordinated consumption of this psychoactive drug has been seen not only among ISIS fighters but also among Syrian army soldiers and proxy forces affiliated with the Islamic Republic, it is suspected that in recent years the production of this substance (and similar psychoactive drugs) has been started by the IRGC within Iran, and from the practical experience of the Syria war, they have also used this substance among their own forces.
Regarding the suppression by security forces in Iran’s nationwide protests, the grouping of suppressive forces is arranged in such a way that in each group a limited number of people consume the substance while the rest are normal individuals; because each group needs a few intelligent people capable of decision-making and, conversely, a few people who can play the role of creating fear and terror and, if necessary, the role of executioners.
