- Iranian Army Order of Battle
The following article lists three Orders of Battle for the Iranian Army at different periods. Note, that this is not the order of battle of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards but of the regular ground forces ("Artesh").
(Taken from
Globalsecurity.org )Army Order of Battle (Localities)
First Army Headquarters Tehran Second Army Headquarters Esfahan Third Army Headquarters Shiraz 28th Mechanized Division Kerman 84th Mechanized Division Khorramabad 18th Armored Division Tehran 81st Armored Division Qazvin, Qasr-e Shirin region 88th Armored Division Ahvaz 30th Infantry Division Tehran 40th Infantry Division Hamadan 58th Infantry Division Ahvaz 64th Infantry Division Bandar 'E Mah Shahr 77th Infantry Division Tabriz 23rd Special Forces Division Tehran 55th Parachute Division Tehran 351st SSM Brigade Tehran 75th Logistics Brigade
Army Order of Battle, circa 1998
Southern Operations Sector
(Dezful)Northern Operations Sector
(Rezaiyeh)Western Operations Sector
(Kermanshah)81st/92nd? Armored Division 28th Mechanized Infantry Division 16th/18th? Armored Division 45th Commando Brigade 64th Infantry Division 81st Armored Division 40th Infantry Brigade 84th Mechanized Infantry Division 25th Commando Brigade 23rd Commando Division 11th Artillery Division 35th Commando Brigade 58th Commando Brigade 22nd Artillery Division 23rd Artillery Division 44th Artillery Division 55th Artillery Division 411th Engineer Division Eastern Operations Sector
(Birjand)Airmobile Forces Group 88th Armored Division 29th Commando Division (Airmobile) 30th Infantry Division 55th Airborne Division 77th Infantry Division Sources: - [http://www.umahexagon.com/index_command.html|Bomba, Ty "Back to Iraq: Speculations on Gulf War II" (Issue 50, 1998)] .
- [http://www.umahexagon.com/index_command.html|Liebl, Vern "The Iranian Armed Forces Today. (Issue 41, 1998)] .
Imperial Army Order of Battle, circa 1970s
16th Armored Division Ghazvin 81st Armored Division Kermanshah 92nd Armored Division Khuzestan 88th Armored Division Sistan 1st Infantry Imperial Guard Division E. Azarbaijan (21st Infantry Div. after the Revolution) 2nd Imperial Guard Division E. Azarbaijan (21st Infantry Div. after the Revolution) 28th Infantry Division Kurdestan 30th Infantry Division Golestan 64th Infantry Division W. Azarbaijan 77th Infantry Division Khorasan 84th Infantry Division Lorestan 55th Airborne Brigade Fars (Division during the war with Iraq) 56th Airborne Brigade Tehran (Division during the war with Iraq) 23rd Airborne Division (NOHED) Tehran 37th Armored Brigade Fars 11th Artillery Group E.Azarbaijan 22nd Artillery Group 33rd Artillery Group Tehran 44th Artillery Group 55th Artillery Group 99th Air Defence Group 4 Hawk missiles Battalions Source: - [http://www.sarbazan.com/iigf.htm|Imperial Iranian Ground Forces at Sarbazan]
Recent Wars
* The
Iran-Iraq war which occurred 1980-1988.
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