Commander: Death of Iran’s 5th Abducted Border Guard Unsubstantiated

Commander of the Iranian Border Guard Units General Hossein Zolfaqari rejected Jeish Al-Adl terrorist group’s allegation that it has killed the fifth Iranian border guard that it abducted in February, saying the claim has not been substantiated by any proof or evidence.
“Don’t accept any quotes about the issue of the border guards, there is no proof substantiating the martyrdom of (Jamshid) Danayee-Far (the fifth border guard) and no evidence has been presented to us in this regard,” Zolfaqari told reporters in Tehran on Saturday.

Elsewhere, he responded to a question about some recent shoot-outs at the country’s borders, and said, “These shootings were from a neighboring country and by drug traffickers.”

The four Iranian border guards who had been handed over to the country’s officials in neighboring Pakistan last Friday returned home on Sunday morning two months after their abduction.

The five Iranian border guards were abducted in Jakigour region of Iran’s Sistan and Balouchestan Province on February 6 and taken to Pakistan. Reports said earlier that one of them, Danayee-Far, was killed late last month but the official sources haven’t confirmed his death yet.

Iranian Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli said on Thursday that Tehran will continue pursuing the fate of the 5th border guard abducted by Jeish al-Adl terrorist group.

Tehran would by no means accept the death of the fifth kidnapped border guard, Jamshid Danayee-Far, and will increase diplomatic efforts to find him, Rahmani Fazli said.

The Iranian interior minister took the Pakistani government responsible for following up the case of the last kidnapped Iranian border guard.