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Iran expresses readiness for joint ant-terror operations with Pakistan

Society Materials 13 April 2015 14:30 (UTC +04:00)
Tehran has announced to Islamabad that it is ready to launch joint anti-terror operations, Iranian Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli said.
Iran expresses readiness for joint ant-terror operations with Pakistan

Baku, Azerbaijan, Apr. 13

By Umid Niayesh - Trend:

Tehran has announced to Islamabad that it is ready to launch joint anti-terror operations, Iranian Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli said.

"We have announced that we can carry out joint operations against terrorists with Pakistan and Afghanistan inside their territory," Rahmani Fazli said.

The minister further said that the Pakistani officials have announced in numerous cases that they are not able to control the terrorists within the border regions with Iran, Iran's Mehr news agency reported April 13.

Iran is also ready to provide security in some parts of the Pakistan territory, Rahmani Fazli said.

"We have expressed readiness for safeguarding the areas inside Pakistan and Afghanistan territory which lack security," he added.

The minister also emphasized that the security of the Iran's southeastern and eastern regions is under responsibility of the Islamic Revolutionary guards Corps (IRGC).

The IRGC have been commissioned to ensure the security of 300 kilometers of the Iranian border in the region following the increased activities of the rebel groups along Iran's Sistan and Baluchestan shared borders with Pakistan in the course of the past few months.

In the past few months, extremist groups have conducted several attacks against local police offices in the region. The groups claim they're fighting against the Iranian government for protection of Sunni residents of the province.

In the most recent incident the rebel Baluchi group, Jaish al-Adl killed eight border guards near the border with Pakistan in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan on April 7.

Iranian officials have repeatedly warned that if Pakistan does not take action against Iran's Baluchi rebels, the Islamic Republic forces may enter the neighboring country's territory.

Edited by CN

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