TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran's Deputy Police Chief and Spokesman Brigadier General Saeed Montazer al-Mahdi reiterated Tehran's tight control over the country's borders, saying the armed forces are keeping a watchful eye on every suspicious move along the borderline.

"People should not be worried because our border guards are fully prepared at the borders… ," Brigadier General Montazer al-Mahdi said, addressing a press conference in Tehran on Sunday.

He reiterated that the Law Enforcement Police are making strenuous efforts in the border areas to further improve people's security.

In relevant remarks earlier this week, Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Hassan Firouzabadi underlined that the ISIL is not able to even approach Iran's borders.

"The ISIL is no threat to us and we are determined to annihilate it if ever ISIL's footprints span to areas 40km away from our borders," Firouzabadi said in Tehran.

He stressed that the ISIL has never been present at the Iranian borders at all.

Also last week, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani stressed that the he ISIL terrorists don't dare to approach Iran's borders.

Speaking in an interview with the state TV, Shamkhani underlined that Iran is watching every terrorist activity of the Takfiri groups.

Referring to the Takfiri groups’ attempts to enter Iran via its Western borders, Shamkhani said, “We have been able to push them back."

He further said that Iran‘s support for Iraqis, including Shias, Sunnis, and Kurds, has managed to weaken the terrorist groups, adding that if Iran had not helped Iraq, “the situation of the country would have definitely changed”.

ISIL “threats against Baghdad”, or the Shiite holy shrines, as well as any Takfiri advance towards the Iranian borders are "considered the Islamic Republic's three redlines”, said the senior Iranian security official.

In January, Iranian Ground Force Commander Brigadier General Ahmadreza Pourdastan said the ISIL has evacuated areas closer than 40km to the Iranian border after receiving relevant warnings from Tehran.

"When the terrorist and Takfiri ISIL grouplet entered Iraq from the country's Western borders and reached near the Iranian borders, the Ground Force was fully ready to suppress the terrorist grouplet," Pourdastan said.

"At that time, in addition to full preparedness at the borders, we drew a redline 40km inside the Iraqi soil and underlined that if they passed this redline, they would be given a crushing response by the Islamic Republic of Iran's Armed Forces," he added.

The ISIL terrorist grouplet received the message and rapidly moved away from the specified areas, Pourdastan said.

He also reiterated the full preparedness of the Ground Force's different units to safeguard and defend the Iranian borders at any moment.

By Fars News Agency