NEWSRAEL has been asking ever since the downfall of Assad and his Iran-Hezbollah allies what will happen to the Captagon drug empire they had built. Journalist Eran Malka may have found an answer.
As was well-documented, Syria was the main origin of a huge Iranian-Syrian-Hezbollah run drug trade of Captagon, or what its users called the "poor man's cocaine".
The drug was very cheap and was used by terrorists fighting in the region which kept them awake a feeling good while they died by the thousands.
It was such a cheap drug that the drug cartel began to market it extensively in the Arab world and even outside.
With the end of the Assad regime and the weakening of Hezbollah and Iran - this drug trade is basically without a country where it can be manufactured easily (Syria) and the Iranian-Hezbollah who can make it.
This will be an immediate problem not only for them, but for the unknown number of Arab terrorists and civilians in the Middle East who are addicted.
Today - Eran Malka reported that the man in the picture attached was at last night's meeting in Syria with HTS leader Joulani with all the heads of the different factions that make up the new leaders of Syria.
One of the "leaders" with whom al-Sharaa met yesterday was Imad Abu Zurik, an international drug dealer and producer who operates mainly in southern Syria.
He has also been subject to US sanctions since 2023 and will probably now also become a "legitimate leader."
Will he take over the "Ministry of Illegal Drug Trade" for the new regime?
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