Iran borderguards have carried 107 operations on southeastern borders in past seven months
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Tehran, Oct 29, IRNA -- Iranian borderguards have carried some 107 operations, on southeastern borders -- 67 of which armed clashes with terrorist groups and drug traffickers in the past seven months, Iran's borderguards chief said on Tuesday.
Brigadier Hossein Zolfaqari told a press conference that the Iranian forces have seized weapons and 21.875 tons of narcotics in the mentioned period.
He put the number of fatalities in a Friday night terror attack on Iranian borderguards by militants of Jeish al-Adl terrorist group at 14 and dismissed any other figure in this regard as wrong.
He said that Iranian borderguards has plans to control the region where the Iranian forces were killed, adding that a team including his deputies will be dispatched to the ares on Wednesday to make the necessary preparations.
In case of repetition of such incidents in the future, the Iranian forces will follow the terrorists into the Pakistani border in coordination with Pakistan's borderguards, he said, adding that Iran will inform Pakistan in such a case in order not to harm friendly ties with the neighboring country.
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