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The Immortal Guard of Imperial Iran (Persian: گارد جاویدان شاهنشاهی ایران, romanized: gārd-e jāvidān-e šāhanšāhi-e irān), also known as Imperial Guard (Persian: گارد شاهنشاهی, romanized: gārd-e šāhanšāhi), was both the personal guard force of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran, and an elite combat branch of the Imperial Iranian Army.
Military ranks of Iran. The military ranks of Iran are the ranks used by the Islamic Republic of Iran Armed Forces (IRIAF). The armed forces are split into the Islamic Republic of Iran Army and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The ranks used by the Law Enforcement Forces share a similar structure to the military.
The two Iranian Imperial Guard divisions were combined into the 21st Infantry Division. The purges left the Army poorly prepared when Iraq invaded Iran at the beginning of the Iran–Iraq War . A Central Intelligence Agency assessment of 7 November 1979 said that Iranian military capabilities '..had not recovered significantly since the ...
Iranian Revolutionary Guard soldiers, along with fellow Shi'ite forces from Hezbollah and members of Iran's Basij militia participated in the capture of Qusair from rebel forces on 9 June 2013. [ 83 ] [ 84 ] In 2014, Iran increased its deployment of IRGC in Syria.
It also involved having foreigners re-train the existing army within Iran. In this period a national air force (the Imperial Iranian Air Force) was established and the foundation for a new navy (the Imperial Iranian Navy) was laid. Other armed forces of the time included the Imperial Guard and the Iranian Gendarmerie.
The Iranian Armed Forces, [a] officially the Islamic Republic of Iran Armed Forces, [b] are the combined military forces of Iran, comprising the Islamic Republic of Iran Army (Artesh), the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (Sepah) and the Law Enforcement Command (Faraja). Iranian Armed Forces are the largest in the Middle East in terms of ...
Imperial Guard (1974–1979) Commands. Islamic Revolutionary Guards (second-in-command) Battles/wars. Iran–Iraq War. Yousef Kolahdouz (December 22, 1946 – September 30, 1981; Persian: یوسف کلاهدوز) was an Iranian general during the Iran-Iraq War. He is also counted as one of the founders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
A high-ranking general in Iran's Revolutionary Guard has died after an illness, Iran's state TV reported Saturday. Gen. Vajihollah Moradi was one of the commanders of the Guard's foreign wing, TV ...