Iranian Army Order of Battle

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 HeadquartersTehran
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 Division28th Mechanized Infantry Division16th/18th? Armored Division
45th Commando Brigade64th Infantry Division81st Armored Division
40th Infantry Brigade84th Mechanized Infantry Division
25th Commando Brigade23rd Commando Division
11th Artillery Division35th 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 Division29th Commando Division (Airmobile)
30th Infantry Division55th 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]

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