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Commander of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) elite Quds force, Major General Qassem Suleimani said the Islamic Republic will celebrate along with Iraq and Russia the defeat of ISIS terrorist group in just two months.

“We had decided to go to Syria and Iraq because diplomacy can’t settle some issues,” Suleimani said Thursday in a ceremony in Tehran, stressing: “When the other side knows nothing but to kill we should confront it.”

Suleimani meanwhile, said ISIS considers Iraq and Syria a bridge to reach Iran, wondering if the Iranians would allow the terrorists of reaching the Islamic Republic.

Addressing the Navy commanders in the Southern city of Bandar Abbas on Saturday, Lieutenant Commander of the Iranian Army Brigadier General Ahmad Reza Pourdastan warned that creators and supporters of the ISIS have picked up Pakistan as the terrorist group's next haven.

Noting that Afghanistan, Libya and certain Central Asian states have been nominated for this goal, he said, "Our assessment is that Pakistan will be te next destination of the ISIS after Syria and Iraq because the ISIS is already in there, a part of Taliban has sworn allegiance to it and some heavy spending has been done to recruit forces (for the terrorists)."

General Pourdastan underscored the Iranian Armed Forces' preparedness to confront the ISIS either in Iraq and Syria or any other place in the world.

In relevant remarks in July, General Pourdastan underlined that his forces enjoy intelligence superiority over the ISIS terrorists in certain parts of Iraq and Afghanistan.

"In addition to the air and sea, we have been able to gain good intelligence superiority over the moves of ISIS affiliates in Iraq's Diyala province and recently, in 3 provinces of Afghanistan," he said.

He underscored the Iranian Armed Forces' preparedness to give a decisive response to any threats, and said, "Today, the Islamic Republic of Iran has developed such a power that it makes those who threaten it regret their deeds."

Also in July, General Pourdastan said that Iran has warned the ISIS terrorists not to approach areas 40km away from the Iranian borders, adding that the Iranian Armed Forces' strategy is annihilation of terrorists before they approach the bordering regions.

"The Ground Forces are deployed at the country's western borders and monitor the situation," he said.