MoD: Iran Reserves Right to Respond to Terrorist Crime against Border Guards
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Iranian Minister of Defense Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan said the Islamic Republic reserves the right to give a crushing response to the recent terrorist crime against Iranian border guards serving on the country's southeastern frontier.
"While we reserve the right to give a firm response to such acts of terror, we call on Pakistani officials to arrest and punish the perpetrators of this crime at the earliest," Dehqan said on Friday.
He added that Iran would follow up on the case through the Pakistani government.
On Wednesday, 11 Iranian border guards were killed and three others injured in clashes near the town of Mirjaveh in the southeastern Iranian province of Sistan-and-Baluchestan. The Pakistan-based Jaish ul-Adl terror group claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement.
Iran's Police Chief Brigadier General Hossein Ashtari also said on Friday that terrorist attacks against the country would not go unanswered.
"Enemies of the great Iranian nation must know that such terrorist and brutal measures will not remain unanswered," Ashtari added.
He emphasized that such desperate moves would never be able to affect the faithful Iranian nation and the country's border guards would continue with their efforts to protect the Islamic Republic and would never allow ill-wishers to infiltrate into the country.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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