Speaking to reporters in Iran's Southwestern city of Ahvaz, the provincial capital city of Khuzestan, Commander of the Iranian Border Guard Units General Hossein Zolfaqari announced that police have started online monitoring operations to control Khuzestan water borders.
He said that Iran can have a close and online watch on borders by setting up monitoring units in provincial capitals and other cities throughout the country.
"Right now, the plan (online monitoring) is underway in (Iran's Southeastern) province of Sistan and Balouchestan and will be used in Khuzestan in the near future," Zolfaqari noted, reminding that online monitoring is already being carried out in Khuzestan's water borders.
Last month, a senior Iranian police chief said that the Iranian Law Enforcement Police force plans to deploy units of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) along the country's Southeastern borders as part of its broader plan to intensify border control.
Speaking to FNA in Zahedan, the capital city of the Southeastern province of Sistan and Balouchestan, Iran's Police Chief Brigadier General Esmayeel Ahmadi Moqaddam said his force has taken measures to strengthen border guards units.
"We have taken good measures to reinvigorate our units and set up turrets along border areas and drone units will also be activated for aerial surveillance to the same end," Ahmadi Moqaddam stated.
He added that police have procured the necessary gears for controlling the country's water borders as well.
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.
Eastern Iran borders Afghanistan, which is the world's number one opium and drug producer. Iran's geographical position has made the country a favorite transit corridor for drug traffickers who intend to smuggle their cargoes from Afghanistan to drug dealers in Europe.
In September, Commander of the Iranian Border Guard Units General Hossein Zolfaqari said that the country is closely monitoring its border regions through high-tech equipments, including optical and radar systems.
Speaking to reporters at the time, Zolfaqari underlined the significance of the use of high-tech equipments and technologies in border control, adding that Iranian border guard units are using radar and optic systems to control the country's borders.
