President Rayeesi made the remarks in a meeting with Iraqi Defense Minister Thabet Mohammad Saeed Al-Abbasi in Tehran on Sunday.

The president described the Iran-Iraq border as one of friendship and cooperation.

He added that Iran considers Iraq’s security its own security and supports efforts to strengthen its stability and security, underlining the Arab country must not be turned into a place for plotting against neighbors.

President Rayeesi underscored that Iran also backs all efforts aimed at economic and military reconstruction of Iraq.

The visiting defense chief, for his part, thanked Iran for its full support of the Iraqi people during the foreign invasion of the country and also during the onslaught by the Daesh (also knows as ISIL or ISIS) terrorist group.

Al-Abasi noted that Baghdad will not let opportunistic people threaten and destabilize the borders between the two countries.

He also spoke about Iran’s support for Iraq in tough times, calling for the continuation of this backing during the reconstruction period.

Since late September, the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has launched a series of aerial operations on the headquarters of terrorist groups in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region. The military operation came after the illegal entry of armed teams linked with the Kurdish terrorist groups into the Iranian border cities in recent months.

The Permanent Mission of Iran to the UN has announced that diplomacy has failed to bring an end to the presence of terrorists in Kurdistan region and the terror activities in the Arab country has left Tehran with no other option but to use military force against them.

In mid-October, the Permanent Mission of Iran to the UN sent a letter to the head of the Security Council to elaborate on Tehran’s reasons for its recent military operation against terrorist groups in Northern Iraq, explaining that terrorists have used Iraqi territory to carry out armed attacks against civilians and Iran's infrastructure.

The IRGC Ground Force has announced that the operations against terror bases will continue until all anti-Iran separatist and terrorist outfits holed up in the rugged mountainous area lay down their arms and surrender.

The Iranian Armed Forces, specially the IRGC, have repeatedly warned that they will never tolerate the presence and activity of terrorist groups along the Northwestern border and will give strong and decisive responses in case of anti-security activities.

The IRGC has on countless occasions attacked and destroyed terrorist hideouts in the Kurdistan region with artillery fire, missiles and drones.

Military officials warn of Tehran’s continued attacks against the strongholds of anti-revolutionary groups in the region, specially the Iraqi Kurdistan region. They threatened the Americans that their bases in the region should also be abolished and not be used as an anti-revolutionary center.