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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]

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Army Order of Battle (Localities)

First Army HeadquartersTehran
Second Army HeadquartersEsfahan
Third Army HeadquartersShiraz
28th Mechanized DivisionKerman
35th Mechanized DivisionKhorramabad
84th Mechanized DivisionShiraz
2nd Armoured DivisionDezful
16th Armoured Division Qazvin, Qasr-e Shirin region
18th Armoured DivisionTehran
81st Armored DivisionKermanshah
88th Armoured Division Ahvaz
92nd Armoured Division Khuzestan
30th Infantry DivisionTehran
40th Infantry DivisionHamadan
21st Infantry DivisionAzerbaijan
64th Infantry Division Urumia
77th Infantry Division Khorasan
1st Marine BrigadeBandar Abbas
79th Infantry DivisionTabriz
84th Infantry DivisionLorestan
23rd Special Forces Division Tehran
55th Parachute Division Shiraz
351st SSM BrigadeTehran
75th Logistics Brigade
22nd Artillery Division
23rd Artillery Division
44th Artillery DivisionEsfahan
55th Artillery DivisionEsfahan

Army Order of Battle, c. 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 Brigade 64th Infantry Division 81st Armored Division
40th Infantry Brigade84th Mechanized Infantry Division
25th Commando Brigade 23rd 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 Division 55th Airborne Division
77th Infantry Division
Sources:

Imperial Army Order of Battle, c. 1970s

16th Armored Division Ghazvin
81st Armored DivisionKermanshah
92nd Armored Division Khuzestan
88th Armored DivisionSistan
1st Infantry Imperial Guard DivisionE. Azarbaijan(21st Infantry Div. after the Revolution)
2nd Imperial Guard DivisionE. Azarbaijan(21st Infantry Div. after the Revolution)
28th Infantry DivisionKurdestan
30th Infantry DivisionGolestan
64th Infantry Division (Iran) W. Azerbaijan
77th Infantry Division Khorasan
84th Infantry DivisionLorestan
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 BrigadeFars
11th Artillery GroupE.Azarbaijan
22nd Artillery Group
33rd Artillery GroupTehran
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:

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.