TEHRAN (FNA)- The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorists don't dare to approach Iran's borders, Iranian Deputy Police Chief Brigadier General Hossein Ashtari said.
"No ISIL movement along Iran's borders has been reported and the terrorist group does not dare to get close to Iran," Brigadier General Ashtari told reporters in the city of Mashhad, Northeastern Iran, on Wednesday.

He pointed to 2,000 kilometers of Iran's common borders with Pakistan and Afghanistan, and said, "The country's borders are presently in satisfactory conditions in terms of security."

Earlier this month, Commander of the Iranian Border Guards troops Brigadier General Qassem Rezayee said The ISIL Takfiri terrorists are keeping a wide distance from Iran's borders.

"The ISIL has kept a wide distance from the Iranian borders as the Iraqi army is forcefully pushing back the ISIL from regions under their control," Brigadier General Rezayee told reporters in the city of Zahedan, Southeastern Iran.

He underlined that full security has been preserved along the country's borders in the West, while border entanglements and control have grown tighter than before in Eastern and Southeastern Iran.

Also in January, Iranian Ground Force Commander Brigadier General Ahmadreza Pourdastan said ISIL has evacuated areas closer than 40km to the Iranian border after receiving relevant warnings from Tehran.

"When the terrorist and Takfiri ISIL grouplet entered Iraq from the country's Western borders and reached near the Iranian borders, the Ground Force was fully ready to suppress the terrorist grouplet," Pourdastan said.

"At that time, in addition to full preparedness at the borders, we drew a redline 40km inside the Iraqi soil and underlined that if they passed this redline, they would be given a crushing response by the Islamic Republic of Iran's Armed Forces," he added.

The ISIL terrorist grouplet received the message and rapidly moved away from the specified areas, Pourdastan said.

He also reiterated the full preparedness of the Ground Force's different units to safeguard and defend the Iranian borders at any moment.

By Fars News Agency

 

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