TEHRAN (FNA)- Deputy Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Brigadier General Massoud Jazayeri urged Pakistan to stop terrorists' cross-border attacks from its soil, warning that the Iranian military will take action to crush such terrorist groups if Islamabad continues its present heedless attitude."We hope to be able to prevent terrorist actions with the help of the regional governments, specially the Pakistani government and army," General Jazayeri told reporters on the sidelines of a ceremony held in Tehran on Monday to commemorate the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) martyred commanders.
"Naturally, Iran will not bear such conditions for a long time and if the Islamic Republic feels necessary, it will adopt deterrent measures in this regard," he stressed with a warning tone.
Four Iranian police officers, including a conscript, were killed in two terrorist attacks on a border post in the Southeastern province of Sistan and Balouchestan earlier this month.
The tragic event took place in the vicinity of the city of Saravan near the border with Pakistan.
In a separate incident, Commander of the Iranian Border Guards in the Southeastern Province of Sistan and Balouchestan announced on Friday that his forces have killed a large number of outlaws in clashes at the border with Pakistan.
Brigadier General Rohambakhsh Habibi said on Friday that the Zahedan Border Guards Brigade had received tips on the movement of a group of armed militants at the zero point of Iran-Pakistan borders and their intention to infiltrate into the Iranian soil.
In reaction to Pakistan's lax control over its borders, the Iranian Foreign Ministry on Saturday night summoned Pakistan's Ambassador to Tehran Nour Mohammad Jadmani.
The director-general of the West Asia Office of the Iranian Foreign Ministry invited the Pakistani envoy and conveyed the Islamic Republics displeasure and official protest to him over the recent terrorist attack on Iranian border guards.
At the meeting with the Pakistani envoy, the Iranian foreign ministry official said, "It is not acceptable to us that a number of terrorists and outlaws make aggressions against our territories from inside Pakistan and martyr our border guards by attacking them."
"The friendly atmosphere dominating the relations of the two countries shouldnt be impaired by such problems and officials (in Islamabad) should find a way in order not to allow the enemies to attain their goals," he added.
Jamdani, for his part, expressed regret over the martyrdom and injuring of the Iranian border guards, and said he would convey Tehrans message to Islamabad to pursue the issue.
Last week, the Iranian interior ministry held Islamabad accountable for the terrorist attacks.
"We dont expect the Pakistani government (to allow) the terrorist operations will be held against Iran from the Pakistani soil," Interior Ministry Spokesman Hossein Ali Amiri told reporters in Tehran.
He called on the Iranian foreign ministry to take more active measures in contacts with Islamabad to make the Muslim neighboring state in order not to allow their country become a launchpad for terrorist operations against Iran.
Yet, the spokesman said the terrorist attacks did not have any military value as they were only some hit-and-run operations by the terrorists who sneak into Iran from a neighboring state, carry out terrorist operations and then escape to the same country.
Amiri called for Pakistan's serious cooperation in preventing terrorists' infiltration into the Iranian soil, and said, "The Pakistani government should be held accountable for the terrorist operations."
In response, the Pakistani officials asked Iran to provide Islamabad with documents showing that the terrorists had sneaked into Iran through Pakistan's border.
Lieutenant Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Ground Force Brigadier General Abdollah Araqi told reporters in Tehran on Saturday that the IRGC Ground Force has provided the foreign and interior ministries with substantiating proof and evidence on terrorists' infiltration from Pakistan.
By Fars News Agency
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