Persian Glossary
- ‘attari
Traditional apothecary
- Bangi
Hashish smoker
- Basij-e Mosta‘zafin
Voluntary Forces of the Disinherited
- Camp (Kamp)
Rehabilitation centre
- Daru
Medicine (slang for heroin)
- Defa‘-e Moqaddas
Sacred Defence
- E‘tiyad
Addiction
- Estekbar-e jahani
Global Arrogance
- Gart
Slang for ‘heroin’
- Gasht-e Esrshad
Moral police
- Gharbzadegi
Occidentosis/Westoxification
- Hakem-e shar‘
Leading state prosecutor
- Janbazan
War veterans
- Jang-e Tahmili
Imposed war
- Jonbesh
Movement
- Kahesh-e asib/zayan
Harm reduction
- Kamp
Camps (rehab camp), TC
- Kerak (kerack)
Heroin-base drug, smoked and injected
- Khomari
Withdrawal symptom/drunken state
- Klinik
Clinic
- Komiteh-ye Eslami:
Islamic Committee
- Komiteh-ye Mobarezeh ba AIDS
Committee to Fight against AIDS
- Kopon
Coupon/voucher
- Majles Shoura-ye Eslami (Majles)
National Assembly/Parliament
- Majma‘-e Tashkhis-e Maslahat-e Nezam
Council of the Discernment of the Expediency of the State (or Political Order)
- Manqal
Brazier
- Mo‘tad
Addict
- Mo‘tadan-e Gomnam
Narcotics Anonymous (NA)
- Namaz-e Jom‘eh
- Niru-ye Amniyat-e Jomhuri-ye Eslami (NAJA)
Police
- Nezam
System/state/order
- Ordugah
Compulsory treatment centre
- Pasdaran
Revolutionary Guards (IRGC)
- Qachaq(chi)
Smuggling/(smuggler)
- Qovveh Qazai’yeh
Judiciary
- Sazman-e Behzisti-e Keshvar
Welfare Organisation
- Sazman-e Zendan-ha-ye Keshvar
Prison Organisation
- Seda va Sima
Radio and TV of the Islamic Republic
- Setad
Headquarters
- Shahid
Martyr
- Shireh
Cooked opium residue
- Shirehkesh-khaneh
Opium/shireh smoking den
- Shisheh
Methamphetamine
- Sukhteh
Opium residue (dross)
- Sut
1/10 of Shisheh
- Tajahor
Publicly intoxicated
- Tarh-e jam‘avari
Drug addict collection plan
- Taryak(i)
Opium (opium addict)
- Vafur
Opium pipe
- Vaqf
Religious endowment
- Velayat-e Faqih
Guardianship of the Jurist
- Vezarat-e Behdasth va Darman
Ministry of Health and Treatment
- Zarurat
Necessity, emergency (in Islamic Jurisprudence)
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