Structure of the Iranian Army

The following article lists four Orders of Battle for the Iranian Army at different periods. Note, that this is not the order of battle of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps but of the regular ground forces (Artesh).^[1]

Army Order of Battle (Localities)

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 Armoured Division	Dezful
16th Armoured Division	Qazvin, Qasr-e Shirin region
18th Armoured Division	Tehran
81st Armored Division	Kermanshah
88th Armoured Division	Ahvaz
92nd Armoured 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	Esfahan
55th Artillery Division	Esfahan

Army Order of Battle, c. 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: 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

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

Divisions of the Ground Forces, 1941

Source: https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/نیروی_زمینی_شاهنشاهی_ایران The divisions of the Ground Forces at the time of the Allied invasion of 1941 were as follows:

• Central 1st Division: Includes 4 infantry regiments, 3 cavalry regiments, 2 mountain artillery regiments, and several engineering battalions. The talent of 13,000 people.

• 2nd Central Division: includes 3 infantry regiments, 3 cavalry regiments, 2 artillery regiments, and several engineering battalions. Talent: 12,000.

• Tehran Independent Mechanized Brigade. Includes a light tank battalion with a capacity of 50 tanks. A medium tank battalion with a capacity of 50 tanks.

• 3rd Northeast Division: Includes 3 infantry regiments, 2 cavalry regiments, 1 artillery regiment, and 1 air regiment. Talent: 9,500 people. See 64th Infantry Division (Iran)?

• 4th Northwest Division: 1 infantry regiment, 2 cavalry regiment, 1 artillery regiment. Talent 4500.

• 5th Kurdistan Division: includes 3 infantry regiments, 1 cavalry regiment. Talent: 5,000 people

• 6th Division of Khuzestan: includes 3 infantry regiments, 1 cavalry regiment, 1 artillery regiment, and 1 air regiment. The talent of 8,000 people.

• 7th Fars Division: including 3 infantry regiments, 1 mixed artillery regiment, and 1 cavalry regiment. The talent of 5,000 people.

• 8th Division of Kerman: includes 1 infantry regiment, 1 cavalry regiment, and 1 mixed artillery regiment. The talent of 4,500 people.

• 9th Khorasan Division: Includes 2 infantry regiments, 2 cavalry regiments, 1 mixed artillery regiment, and 1 air regiment. Talent: 6,000 people.

• 10th Gorgan Division: Includes 1 infantry regiment, 1 cavalry regiment, and 1 artillery regiment. The talent of 4,500 people.

• The 11th Division of Gilan: It includes 3 infantry regiments. Totalled 4,000 people.

• 12th Division of Kermanshah:^[2] 1 infantry regiment, 1 cavalry regiment, 1 field artillery regiment, 1 mixed mountain regiment. Totalled 4,000 people.

• Isfahan 13th Division: Commanded by Fazlollah Zahedi. Includes 1 infantry regiment, 1 cavalry regiment, and 1 artillery regiment. The talent of 4,000 people.

• The 14th Makran Division: Includes 2 infantry regiments, 1 cavalry regiment, 1 artillery regiment, and 1 Jammaz (camel) battalion. The talent of 4,000 people. Former Makran Brigade

• 15th Division of Ardabil: 2 infantry regiments, 1 cavalry regiment. The talent of 4,000 people.

• 16th Lorestan Division: 1 infantry regiment, 1 cavalry regiment, 1 artillery battalion. The talent of 4,000 people.

• 17th Khoy Division: 1 infantry regiment, 1 cavalry regiment. The talent of 3,000 people.

• 18th Torbat-e-Jam Division: 3 infantry regiments. The talent of 4,000 people.

Total: 94,000 soldiers.

References

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.
2. Ward 2014, p. 160-162.

• Ward, Steven R. (2014). Immortal: a military history of Iran and its armed forces. Georgetown University Press. ISBN 9781626160323.