"The IRGC will impose its power on the outlaws of the country's bordering areas," Head of the Inspection Department of Khatam ol-Anbia Air Defense Base Brigadier General Mohammad Jaffar Assadi told FNA.
Elaborating on the terrorist groups' actions against national security in the country's bordering areas, he reminded that enemies of the Islamic Revolution have always sought to hit the Islamic Republic through problems in all parts of the country ever since the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran.
Assadi further pointed to the capture of the ringleader of the Jundollah terrorist group, Abdolmalek Rigi, as an instance of Iran's intelligence power, and said Rigi's arrest has caused frustration among rebels and outlaws in border areas and their western supporters.
Iran announced in late February that it had arrested Rigi after intensive and long-term intelligence and security operations.
In reaction to the news, an advisor to Iran's judiciary chief reiterated at the time that Iran's success in arresting Rigi has deeply worried the US and British spy agencies.
"The information that he (Rigi) has is more important than his trial and punishment. He must answer many questions, and that is a point worrying the powers and countries which supported him," General Mohammad Baqer Zolqadr said, adding that Tehran would soon start judicial processing of the criminal's case and punish him.
"His information about his contacts in the US and British spy agencies and the way they contacted him as well as (his information about) the crimes that he has carried out at their (spy agencies') order and through their support is highly important," Zolqadr, who used to serve as senior commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), added.
"He should make some explanations about the financial and logistical supports of a number of regional states for his criminal acts," the official said.
In his confessions, Rigi stated that they were going to discuss new terrorist attacks on Iranian territory.
"After Obama was elected, the Americans contacted us and they met me in Pakistan. They met us after (Iranian forces') clashes with my group around March 17 in (the southeastern city of) Zahedan and he (the US operative) said that Americans had requested a meeting," he said.
"They (Americans) said they would cooperate with us and will give me military equipment, arms and machine guns," Rigi stated, adding, "They also promised to give us a base along the border with Afghanistan next to Iran."
The Jundollah's ringleader then revealed the US plot for supporting all anti-Iran terrorist groups, saying, "One of the CIA officers said that it was too difficult for us to attack Iran militarily, but we plan to give aid and support to all anti-Iran groups that have the capability to wage war and create difficulty for Iran's (Islamic) system."
Jundollah is responsible for several other terrorist operations which killed tens of citizens and security forces. In 2007, Jundollah kidnapped 30 people in Sistan and Balouchestan province. They were freed during a Pakistani police operation after abductors took them to the country.
The terrorist group claimed responsibility the same year for an attack on an Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) bus in which 11 IRGC personnel were killed.
In its latest crime in October, the Pakistan-based terrorist group, closely affiliated with the notorious al-Qaeda organization, claimed responsibility for a deadly attack in the southeastern Sistan and Balouchestan province which killed 42 people among them a group of senior military commanders, including Lieutenant Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) ground force Brigadier General Nourali Shoushtari.
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