TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s Deputy Interior Minister Ali Abdollahi condemned the deadly attack against Iranian border guards in the Southeastern Sistan and Baluchestan province on Saturday, and laid emphasis on the implementation of the security agreement already signed by Tehran and Islamabad.


“We urge the Pakistani government to take more measures than before to seriously tighten control over its borders,” Abdollahi said Saturday.

He further pointed to a security agreement signed between Iran and Pakistan and called for more serious measures by the Pakistani side to control its borders to curb terrorist activities.

Abdollahi said that Friday night’s terrorist attack seems to have been planned beyond the country’s borders, adding that the Interior and Foreign Ministries are jointly looking into the incident.

He also said that the Supreme National Security Council would convene a meeting on Sunday to investigate the incident.

On Saturday, Iran's President Hassan Rouhani in a decree ordered Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli to take a series of actions in the aftermath of this morning's terrorist attack which resulted in the death of 14 Iranian border guards.

In his message, President Rouhani extended his condolences to the nation, the law enforcement force's border guards unit and the bereaved families of the 14 slain border guards.

President Rouhani, who chairs the country's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), stressed that his "government is strongly determined to encounter concerted outlawed activities in a bid to protect the borders of the Islamic homeland".

"Hence, I ask the respectable interior minister to immediately set up a special committee in cooperation with the law enforcement police to deal with this development and confront such outlawed activities and inform me of the results very rapidly," he said.

The President also necessitated the foreign minister to take the necessary measures in line with the implementation of Iran's security agreements with Pakistan and inform him of the results immediately.

14 Iranian border guards were killed and 6 more were injured during the terrorist attack in Saravan border region in Southeastern Iran in the early hours of Saturday morning. The terrorists who have reportedly been members of the outlawed Jeish Al-Adl radical Sunni Wahhabi movement fled into Pakistan after the operation in Iran's Southeastern province.

By Fars News Agency

 

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