Commander of the Iranian Army Ground Force Brigadier General Kioumars Heydari told IRNA on Monday that the deployment of forces in the northeastern borders of Iran is carried out to implement military spatial planning aimed at focusing on areas where there has been a lack of ground forces.

According to the commander, the country’s ground forces are tasked with defending the independence and territorial integrity of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

In the past, there was not any military spatial planning that could definitively address the issue; therefore, we designed and implemented the plan, he said.

This spatial planning is taking place with the use of missiles, drones, and maneuvering forces at Iran’s border areas with the aim of conducting a decisive and well-timed operational plan in the face of any threat, he argued.