Human Rights Activists in Iran (HRA) News Service – Citizenship, Thought and Expression Rights: This morning, Commander Esmayil Ahmadi Moqadam spoke to reporters in Khoram Abad: “The truth about slogans that are supposedly from the people has come out and their true face has been revealed.”

Fars news service quoted him as saying: “We needed to wait a few months before these currents that claim to be of people would reveal their true face.”

Police Commander of Iran said: “We are past these matters now and the truth of their slogans, which they claimed to defend Imam, the law and the Supreme Leader.”

He stressed: “These currents move against the law and break the law and they speak and act against what the regime says and show no reaction to those who insult Imam and religion.”

Police commander, while saying this has been clear for people, said: “Today, the number of those who do these illegal acts is very small and dismal.”

Ahmadi Moqaddam said: “We advise them to stop what they are doing, otherwise we will harshly deal with those who disrupt the law.”

Police Commander of Iran said: “It is no longer necessary to give them time, if they were supposed to get it, they would already have.”

Speaking on events that occured in Qom, Ahmadi Moqaddam said: “Nothing special happened. There were only clashes between two groups and police separated them.”

The commander of the Islamic Republic Police described goals of the Fourth Program of Development in improving the control of borders. He said: “Currently, the process of controlling borders is far from our desired level.”

Ahmadi Moqaddam said: “With support of the government and parliament, in Fourth Program of Development we have given an important place to improving the security in our borders.”

He stressed: “When Fourth Program began, we only had control in 15 percent of the border, and now after a dramatic rise, it is around 60 percent.”

Commander of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Police talked about the gap and said: “60 percent is still far from our goal.”

Ahmadi Moqaddam talked about designing the Fifth Program of Development and said: “In the Fifth Program, a scheme for strengthening control for our borders is anticipated.”

He talked about police plans in the Fifth Program of Development for blocking borders, strengthening borders units: electronic and air controls. He stated: “We have anticipated that if we continue with the current efforts to the end of the Fifth Program, we sill have our desired situation in border control at the end of Fifth Program.”

Police Commander of the Islamic Republic of Iran said: “We aim to bring the border control to 80 percent at the end of the Fifth Program of Development.”

Commander Ahmadi Moqaddam also responded to a reporter’s question on the situation of assessing what happened in Darvish Temple in Tehran. He said: “That event doesn’t have any hidden dimensions. A person who wanted to revenge wanted to do that, and thankfully we stopped him.”

About the motive for the act, he said: “Currently we are going after his claims and whatever that was needed to be said was aired.”

On the issue of increasing police stations in the country, the commander talked about a new plan.

On a question about why police stations were not opened in some villages, even after the land was allocated, he said: “If wherever we allocate  land we just open a police station, it would end our continued expansion.”

He said: “We had a process before and a lot of unreal commitments had been declared and none of them happened.”

He said while main roads in the country do not have road police, there is no need for police stations in some places. He added: “Previously, they would just get some land and told people they would open stations, but then they could not do it.”

Ahmadi Moqaddam said: “We have a new plan for police that was designed two years ago that considers balancing geography, population, and crime rates.”

Translated to English by Arash Azizi for