TEHRAN (FNA)- Commander of Iran’s Border Guard Force General Hossein Zolfaqari announced that his forces have managed to establish calm along the country’s Southeastern borders after thwarting tens of infiltration attempts.


General Zolfaqari’s remarks came after 14 Iranian border guards were killed and 6 more were injured during the terrorist attack by outlaws in Saravan border region in Southeastern Iran last month.

“The country’s Southeastern borders have come under relative control, and internal securities have also been harnessed through the measures taken,” General Zolfaqari said on Wednesday.

He pointed to 33 armed clashes between Iranian border guards and outlaws along Iran's Eastern borders, and said, “Outlaws constantly clash with border guards units at our zero border point and they take position and target us from the other side of the border.”

Last month, General Zolfaqari announced that his forces had thwarted the infiltration of 10 terrorist groups into Iran.

“The Islamic Republic of Iran’s border guards have blocked the penetration of 10 terrorist grouplets into the country by now,” Zolfaqari said in a ceremony in memory of the Iranian border guards killed by terrorists in the Southeastern Sistan and Balouchestan province on October 26.

The terrorists who have reportedly been members of the outlawed Jeish Al-Adl radical Sunni Wahhabi movement affiliated to the terrorist Jundollah group fled into Pakistan after the operation in Iran's Sistan and Balouchestan province.

After the attack the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) in a statement vowed to take action against.

“Under the present crucial juncture that the Islamic establishment is going through a sensitive historical juncture and is trying to gain a major achievement in area of nuclear talks strategic achievement, terrorist actions under the command and support of the spy agencies of the arrogant and colonial powers will not be able to harm the sincere and determined will of the Iranian nation,” parts of IRGC statement read.

“The Sirkan (in Saravan of Sistan and Baluchestan) crime should remind the alleged advocates of global terrorism and those interested in establishing ties with the Islamic Republic that the Iranian nation has never been unaware of the masterminds of plots who direct terrorist acts by the counterrevolutionary forces against it and it will consider it in its strategic calculations through monitoring and realistic analysis,” the statement added.

The statement further reminded the positive security measures taken by the IRGC in the last several years in Sistan and Balouchestan, which could improve the security conditions in the area, and said, "Foes and enemies of the Islamic Revolution should rest assured that such attacks can never harm the unity and solidarity of the ruling system and the people in Southeastern Iran, and would rather strengthen their unity."

"Defenders of the Islamic Revolution and borders of the country will continue combating the anti-revolutionaries, outlaws and aggressive terrorists decisively and powerfully in future," the IRGC underlined in its statement.

By Fars News Agency 

 

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