MNA � The commander of Iran Border Guard Command Brigadier General Ghasem Rezaei has said that Iranian border guards will hold a joint meeting with Iraqi Kurdistan�s Sulaimaniyah province authorities to lay the ground for conducting joint patrols.







Brigadier General Ghasem Rezaei made the remarks while visiting the western province of Kurdistan and in a meeting with the commander of the border guards of Iraqi Kurdistan�s Sulaimaniyah province Brigadier General Abdullah Hamad Saeed.

In the meeting, the commander of Iran Border Guard Command expressed his happiness with the meeting, also�expressing hope that the meeting will have positive results for the border security in Iranian governorates of Baneh and Marivan and Iraqi Kurdistan�s Sulaimaniyah province.

Rezaei also said "proper control over the shared borders entails�fighting Takfiri and terrorist groups, preventing illegal travel across the borders and confronting smugglers.�

The commander of Iran Border Guard Command added that through the efforts of the border guards of the two countries of the Islamic Republic of Iran and Iraq, there is a good security in the Baneh and Marivan governorates, but more efforts are still needed.

He further pointed out that a joint meeting will be held between the border security of Iran and Iraqi Kurdistan�s Sulaimaniyah province in the near future in Sulaimaniyah to pave the way for joint patrols, given the sensitive conditions of the region and with the aim of creating appropriate relations.