After factory strike, IDF says Iran trying to weaponize opioid at least 50x stronger than heroin

Illustrative: A bag with label warning of the dangers of fentanyl. The bag is from a major drug bust, at the office of the New York Attorney General, September 23, 2016 in New York City. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images via AFP)
Illustrative: A bag with label warning of the dangers of fentanyl. The bag is from a major drug bust, at the office of the New York Attorney General, September 23, 2016 in New York City. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images via AFP)

The IDF announces that it carried out a strike Tuesday on a civilian factory in Iran producing the synthetic opioid fentanyl on behalf of the Islamic Republic’s chemical weapons program.

A statement from the Israel Defense Forces says that the fentanyl, which is at least 50 times stronger than heroin, was being transferred to the Iranian defense body tasked with producing chemical weapons in order to be used in “the research and development of chemical weapons.”

“The attack harmed the chemical weapons production capabilities of the Iranian terror regime,” the IDF says, adding that prior to the strike it took unspecified means “to reduce potential harm to civilians as much as possible.”

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