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Police Chief Hopes to Fully Close Iran’s Eastern Borders in 2 Years

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Iran’s Police Chief Esmayeel Ahmadi Moqaddam said his forces will continue intensifying security measures to fully seal the borderline in Eastern Iran in the next two years in a bid to prevent border crossing by drug traffickers and terrorists.
“The plan to seal the country’s Eastern borders started a few years ago and has progressed so well that a significant part of it has already been accomplished along the border with Afghanistan,” Ahmadi Moqaddam told reporters in the Northwestern city of Tabriz on Tuesday.

He said that a full closure of the Iranian borders with Pakistan is also on police agenda, and expressed the hope that the country’s Eastern borderline would be closed in the next two years.

Iran shares open borders on the West with Iraq and Turkey, on the East with Afghanistan and Pakistan, on the South with the Persian Gulf littoral states and the Sea of Oman, on the North with Armenia and Azerbaijan and the Caspian Sea, and on the North East with Turkmenistan.

Iran, located at the crossroad of international drug smuggling from Afghanistan to Europe, has taken new security measures in its border provinces following several attacks by terrorists and drug traffickers at its Eastern and Western borders.

The Iranian police measures along the Eastern borders have forced drug-traffickers to resort to other routes, including the Sea of Oman and the Persian Gulf, for smuggling their drug cargos which originate in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

According to the statistical figures released by the UN, Iran ranks first among the world countries in preventing entry of drugs and decreasing demand for narcotics.

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