Royal Marines stormed dozens of vessels after they were spotted leaving small ports and tracked by Royal Navy warships

military operation has seized drugs worth £26million being smuggled to Britain from Iran.Royal Marines stormed dozens of vessels after they were spotted leaving small ports and tracked by Royal Navy warships until they entered international waters. Commandos in inflatable speedboats forcibly boarded the "dhows" loaded with heroin, cocaine, cannabis and "speed".Last night a defence source said: "The majority of the heroin and hash had been grown in Afghanistan.It is transported from provinces like Helmand to Iran and smuggled to Europe by boat. This is a huge haul and will hit the Taliban hard."The naval operations - involving frigates HMS Chatham and HMS Montrose and the destroyer HMS Edinburgh - were all made in the socalled smuggling "hash highway" off the Iranian coast.