IRGC Charged with Providing Security in Iran’s Eastern Border
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) was assigned the job of ensuring security at Iran’s border area in the southeastern city of Saravan.
Following a number of violent attacks against Iranian border guards and military outposts by foreign terrorists in the area bordering Pakistan, the Quds Headquarters, affiliated with the IRGC Ground Force, has been charged with taking security measure along 300 kilometers of borders in that area.
On Friday, IRGC Commander Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari paid a visit to the border region in order to evaluate the degree of his forces’ preparedness in carrying out their mission.
During his visit to Saravan, the commander expressed the hope that the IRGC forces would be able to raise the level of security in the region in cooperation with the local residents, IRNA reported.
On October 25, 2013, a group of armed men carried out an ambush attack on a border post in Gazbostan, near Saravan, on the border with Pakistan which has almost no control over its side of the shared frontier with Iran, killing 14 Iranian border guards.
And later on February 6, a Pakistani-based terrorist group, known as Jaish-ul-Adl, kidnapped five Iranian border guards in Jakigour region in the southeastern province of Sistan and Balouchestan and took them to Pakistan.
On March 23, the infamous terrorists claimed that they had killed one of the abductees, called Jamshid Danaeifar.
Meanwhile, Iranian officials have announced that the onus is on the Pakistani government to give an explanation for the death of Danaeifar, and added that lack of serious measures by Islamabad would contradict friendly ties with Tehran.