Speaking to reporters on Monday, the top commander stressed that the Iranian Armed Forces harsh reaction awaits the ISIL terrorist group, which he said has announced plans to target Russia and Iran after a recent string of deadly attacks in Frances capital.
The enemys measures will be foiled before it reaches the (Iranian) borders, and Daesh should know that its merest mistake will face Irans harsh and crushing response, the general added, using an Arabic acronym for ISIL.
He further stressed there will be full security for the Iranian pilgrims who want to travel to Iraq on Arbaeen, saying Iranian armed forces, including the Army, the IRGC and the Police have coordinated efforts to do whatever necessary proportional to the situation to ensure security.
The Arbaeen mourning ceremony is one of the largest religious gatherings in the world.
It marks the 40th day after the martyrdom anniversary of the grandson of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH), Imam Hussein (AS).
Each year, pilgrims, mainly from Iraq and Iran, travel long routes on foot to Karbala, where the holy shrine of Imam Hussein (AS) is located.
This years procession, like last years, is of even greater significance as the ISIL terrorist group, known by both Sunni and Muslims as a foreign-backed enemy of Islam, has seized parts of Iraq.
The militants made advances in northern and western Iraq in summer 2014 after capturing swaths of northern Syria.
However, a combination of concentrated attacks by the Iraqi military and the popular forces, who rushed to take arms after top Iraqi cleric Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani issued a fatwa calling for fight against the militants, have blunted the edge of the ISIL offensive.
By Tasnim News Agency
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