President Rouhani in Ilam, Iran

Islamic Republic of Iran President Hassan Rouhani arrives at Ilam Airport ( IIL / OICI) aboard IRIG Airbus A321-231, reg: EP-AGB (cn 1202).

President driven through predominantly Kurdish-Iranian municipality aboard open-topped vehicle; a practice long discontinued in the United States based on security concerns. Note vigilant USSS-equivalents in blue/black.

Enthusiastic women supporters of the IRI president

Iranian children supporters of the IRI president

Photos: Sina Shiri at Fars News Agency

Tehran to Islamabad -- Implement security agreement we have already agreed upon

Following the recent attack and murder of 14 its border guards on Saturday the Iranian government has called on Pakistan to implement a security agreement which both Tehran and Islamabad have signed which called on the latter to increase security in order to stop terrorists from launching attacks on the international frontier.

Iran's Deputy Interior Minister Ali Abdollahi condemned the attack and called on the Pakistani government to accordingly "take more measures than before to seriously tighten control over its borders."

The terrorists who executed the attack are thought to be members of the Wahhabi Jeish Al-Adl group which operates from Pakistan.

President Rouhani has said his government is "strangle determined to encounter concerted outlawed activities in a bid to protect the border of the Islamic homeland."

He is therefore calling upon "the respectable interior minister to immediately set up a special committee in cooperation with the law enforcement police to deal with this development and confront such outlawed activities and inform me of the results very rapidly." (Fars News Agency, October 27 2013)

Video clip of President Rouhani addressing IRGC

President Rouhani addresses what appears to be a less than enthusiastic audience of high ranking IRGC and Basij officers. By their own body english one gets the impression Rouhani was certainly not their first or even second choice for IRI president. As to the clip itself, Rouhani provides rhetoric expected from an IRI president to such an audience.