TEHRAN, Nov 26 (NNN-IRNA) – Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), has stepped up military presence near the western and north-western borders of the country, to deal with “separatist” threats, an IRGC commander said yesterday.
Armoured IRGC units and special forces have been deployed, “to prevent the infiltration of terrorists, affiliated with separatist groups based in northern Iraq, and the smuggling of weapons into the country,” Mohammad Pakpour, commander of the IRGC Ground Force, was quoted as saying.
The forces would decisively confront insecurity caused by “evil-doers and anti-Iranian separatist terrorist groups in the north-west of the country,” Pakpour added.
The IRGC recently used artillery and drones to attack what it called, the positions of Iranian “separatists,” based in Iraq’s northern Kurdistan Region.– NNN-IRNA
