Iran tightening its border with Azerbaijan
TEHRAN – Iran is implementing a comprehensive plan to tighten security along all of its outside borders, Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar was quoted by PressTV channel as saying.
According to Najjar, security has already been strengthened along the country’s north-western and eastern borders and will soon cover all of its frontiers.
The minister said the government has increased spending on border security 17-fold in comparison with the expenses of the previous Iranian administrations.
Total length of Iran’s overland borders is 5,440 km. The country borders on Azerbaijan, Armenia and Turkmenistan in the north, on Turkey in its northwest, on Iraq in the south, and on Afghanistan and Pakistan in the east.
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