Iran Interior Ministry: Security Tight in Border Areas
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – There has been no security problem along Iran’s border with Iraq since the ISIL Takfiri terrorists launched massive attacks in the northern parts of the Arab country, Iranian Interior Ministry said.
“There is no particular problem along our common border with Iraq, however, the necessary measures have been taken by the Interior Ministry and border police” Iran's Interior Ministry spokesman, Hossein Ali Amiri, said on Monday.
“(Security) conditions in our borders are very good,” he said. He also emphasized that Iran’s Supreme National Security Council will discuss the issue in an upcoming session.
In early June, following its large-scale offensives in Iraq, the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) seized control of most parts of Mosul, the second most populous city in Iraq, its surrounding Nineveh province. ISIL militants have been in control of Fallujah city since December.
The terrorists’ attacks have reportedly forced more than half a million people in and around Mosul, the capital of Nineveh Province, to flee their homes.
The Takfiri militants have vowed to march toward the capital, Baghdad.
They are said to have entered Iraq from neighboring Syria and Saudi Arabia to destabilize the Arab country.