The Quds Force is one of five branches of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) specializing in unconventional warfare and military intelligence operations. U.S. Army's Iraq War General Stanley McChrystal describes the Quds Force as an organization analogous to a combination of the CIA and the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the United States. Responsible for extraterritorial operations, the Quds Force supports non-state actors in many countries, including Hezbollah, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Houthi movement, and Shia militias in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan. According to Michael Wigginton et al., the Al-Quds Force is "a classic example of state-sponsored terrorism."
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Ground Forces, acronymed NEZSA, are the ground forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The IRGC Ground Forces are more geared towards internal disorder than the regular Iranian Army. However, in recent years, the IRGC Ground Forces and by extension the entire IRGC, have transitioned to becoming an expeditionary force, capable of projecting power abroad, through conventional military operations or via proxies and unconventional warfare. There are at least around 150,000 IRGC Ground Force troops.
Operation Fath-ol-Mobin was a major Iranian military operation conducted during the Iran–Iraq War, in March 1982. The operation was led by Lt. General Ali Sayad Shirazi, and was conducted in four phases.
Operation Dawn 4 was an Iranian operation of the Iran–Iraq War launched in October 1983. At the end of the operation Iran had captured a small amount of territory from the Iraqis.
Operation Beit-ol-Moqaddas, also known as the Operation Toward Beit-ol-Moqaddas, was an Iranian operation conducted during the Iran–Iraq War. The operation was a success, as it achieved its standing aim of liberating Khorramshahr and pushed Iraqi troops back to the border. This operation, coupled with Operation Tariq-ol-Qods, and Operation Fath-ol-Mobin, succeeded in evicting Iraqi troops from southern Iran and gave Iran the momentum.
Operation Tariq al-Quds was a military operation launched by Iran during the Iran–Iraq War to free Bostan in the Khuzestan province. It was fought from 29 November to 7 December 1981 and was carried out jointly by the Iranian Army and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
Operation Dawn 2 or Operation Valfajr-2 was an Iranian operation during the eight-year-long Iran–Iraq War. This operation opened a new front in northern Iraq/Iraqi Kurdistan also known as "the Northern Front". Despite Turkish help, this region was Iraq's weak point during the war as the Kurds sided with Iran.
Operation Fath 1, or Operation Wahdat, was a joint Iranian and Iraqi Kurdish special operation conducted by Iran's IRGC special forces and Iraqi Kurdish partisans of Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) in 11 and 12 October 1986 in Kirkuk area of northern Iraq during the Iran–Iraq War. The Iranian and Kurdish forces infiltrated into the area and successfully attacked economic and military targets with minimal losses of their own.
17th Ali ibn Abi Taleb Division was a division of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps during the Iran–Iraq War. It covered Qom, Zanjan, Semnan, and Markazi provinces.
On 18 June 2017, under Operation Laylat al-Qadr, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) fired six surface-to-surface mid-range ballistic missile from domestic bases targeting ISIL forces in the Syrian Deir ez-Zor Governorate in response to the terrorist attacks in Tehran earlier that month. Next day, the IRGC published aerial videos recorded by the Damascus-based IRGC drones flying over the city during the operation, confirming that the missiles had successfully hit the targets with precision.
Operation Dawn-10 or Walfajr-10 was a large offensive operation launched by Iran against Iraq on March 15, 1988, in the final stages of the Iran–Iraq War. It was commanded by the Pasdaran and included the support of some regular Army forces. The operation shifted Iran's operational area from southern to northern Iraq. The battle was a defeat for Iraq, which suffered more than 10,000 casualties and more than 5,000 troops captured, against some 3,000 Iranian deaths.
Operation Muslim Ibn Aqil was an operation during the Iran–Iraq War which was launched by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the Iranian Army with the code of "Ya Abal-Fazl al-Abbas" on 1 October 1982.
Operation Karbala-9 was an offensive operation in Iran–Iraq War, which was launched by Islamic Republic of Iran Army with the operation code of "Ya Mahdi, Adrekni" on 9 April 1987. This operation ended inconclusively, and Iran had very large casualties from the numerous Iraqi traps.
Operation Dawn 9 was a military operation during the Iran-Iraq War. It was launched on 24 February 1986 on the eastern area of Sulaymaniyah at the front of "northwest", which was performed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Operation Beit ol-Moqaddas 3 was a military operation during Iran-Iraq War, which was launched on 14 March 1988—by Iran—with the code of "Ya Mousa ibn Jafar" ; whose goal was to capture the heights of Sulaymaniyah, and also in order to respond the Iraqi actions in bombarding of residential areas in the general region of Sulaymaniyah Governorate. Iranian authorities claimed to have penetrated 20 km (12 mi) into Iraqi territory.
Operation Quds-1 is the name of a military operation which was started on June 14, 1985 during the Iran–Iraq War. The operation was launched by the forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of the Islamic Republic of Iran under the code name of "Ya Mohammad Rasoolullah" in the "Hur al-Hawizeh " operational zone which is located at the east of the Tigris River in Iraq. The goal of Quds-1 operation was to annihilate the Ba'athist forces in Iraq and in order to disrupt the cohesion of Saddam's army in the region; The size of the area was approximately one hundred and eighty square kilometers.
Operation Commander-in-Chief, , is the name of a military operation which was launched during Iran–Iraq War on 11 June 1981 by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps against Iraqi Ba'athist army. The operation was carried out with the purpose of opening the siege of Abadan and also as a test for the significant operation of Samen-ol-A'emeh.
Operation Quds-2 is one of the operations of the Iran–Iraq War, which was launched on July 25, 1985, in the "Hor al-Hawizeh" operational zone by the forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Abbas Nilforoushan was an Iranian brigadier general of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), who served as Deputy of Operations. He began his military career in 1980 with the Basij, then joined the IRGC and was a member of this organization throughout the Iran–Iraq War.
Qolamhossein Afshordi known as Hassan Bagheri, was an Iranian soldier and journalist who worked as the deputy commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Ground Forces during the Iran-Iraq war. He was one of the senior commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in the Operation Tariq al-Quds, the Operation Fath ol-Mobin, the Operation Ramadan, and the Operation Beit ol-Moqaddas, and he played a key role in the liberation of Khorramshahr. Bagheri was killed by a mortar shell in January 1983, shortly before the start of the Operation Before the Dawn during reconnaissance operations in Fakkeh. He was the brother of Mohammad Bagheri, Chief of Islamic Republic of Iran Armed Forces.
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