The commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says the country’s borders enjoy full security, with the IRGC, Army and Police forces closely watching and controlling border areas, as the Taliban militants capture new territories in neighboring Afghanistan.
“The armed forces are present at the country’s eastern borders with full readiness and vigilance,” Major General Hossein Salami told reporters on Friday morning during a visit to the northeastern city of Mashhad.
Salami reiterated that all of the official and unofficial border crossings in the east of the country are under full control of the Iranian armed forces.
“People should not worry at all, because the scope of our observations has gone beyond the borders and we are monitoring and controlling all the developments in the neighboring country,” he said.
In recent weeks, the Taliban militants have waged a massive rampage across the war-torn country, seizing control of multiple strategic cities toward the capital, Kabul.