Structure of the Iranian Army

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).^[1]

Army Order of Battle (Localities) edit

First Army Headquarters	Tehran
Second Army Headquarters	Esfahan
Third Army Headquarters	Shiraz
28th Mechanized Division	Kerman
35th Mechanized Division	Khorramabad
84th Mechanized Division	Shiraz
2nd Armored Division	Dezful
16th Armored Division	Qazvin, Qasr-e Shirin region
18th Armored Division	Tehran
81st Armored Division	Kermanshah
88th Armored Division	Ahvaz
92nd Armored Division	Khuzestan
30th Infantry Division	Tehran
40th Infantry Division	Hamadan
21st Infantry Division	Azerbaijan
64th Infantry Division	Urumia
77th Infantry Division	Khorasan
1st Marine Brigade	Bandar Abbas
79th Infantry Division	Tabriz
84th Infantry Division	Lorestan
23rd Special Forces Division	Tehran
55th Parachute Division	Shiraz
351st SSM Brigade	Tehran
75th Logistics Brigade
22nd Artillery Division
23rd Artillery Division
44th Artillery Division
55th Artillery Division

Army Order of Battle, c. 1998 edit

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: Bomba, Ty "Back to Iraq: Speculations on Gulf War II" (Issue 50, 1998). Liebl, Vern "The Iranian Armed Forces Today. (Issue 41, 1998).

Imperial Army Order of Battle, c. 1970s edit

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 (Iran)	W. Azerbaijan
77th Infantry Division	Khorasan
84th Infantry Division	Lorestan
55th Airborne Brigade	Fars	(Division during the war with Iraq)
65th Airborne Brigade	Tehran	(Division during the war with Iraq)
23rd Airborne Brigade (NOHED)	Tehran	(Division during the war with Iraq)
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: Imperial Iranian Ground Forces at Sarbazan

References edit

^ "The Arkenstone - ارکنستون: Identifying Units of the Iranian Armed Forces - ORBAT - Artesh". Archived from the original on 2013-10-10. Retrieved 2012-09-22.

[1] "The Arkenstone - ارکنستون: Identifying Units of the Iranian Armed Forces - ORBAT - Artesh". Archived from the original on 2013-10-10. Retrieved 2012-09-22.

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