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  2. Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps - Wikipedia

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    The IRGC is intended to complement the more traditional role of the regular Iranian military, with the two forces operating separately and focusing on different operational roles. [45] The IRGC is a combined arms force with its own ground forces, navy, [23] air force, intelligence, [46] and special forces. It also controls the Basij militia ...

  3. Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Ground Forces - Wikipedia

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    The 1979 Iranian constitution gave Khomeini the supreme command of all armed forces, including the IRGC. [7] In the wake of Iraq invasion of Iran in 1980, Islamic Republican Party (whose forces were led by the IRGC) and leftist organizations harshly confronted each other, resulting in thousands of casualties; the impeachment and removal of ...

  4. Controversies surrounding the Islamic Revolutionary Guard ...

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    In January 2007 the US army detained five Iranians in northern Iraq, claiming they were Quds operatives of the IRGC, providing military assistance to Shiite militias, without offering any further evidence that lends credibility to such claims. The Iranian and Iraqi governments maintain that they were diplomats working for the Iranian consulate ...

  5. Iran's Revolutionary Guards: powerful group with wide ...

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    After the 1980s war with Iraq, the IRGC became heavily involved in Iran’s reconstruction. It has since expanded its economic interests to include a vast network of businesses worth billions of ...

  6. Pentagon not aware of any Iranians being killed in recent strikes

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    The United States launched airstrikes in Iraq and Syria on Friday against more than 85 targets linked to Iran's Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) and militias it backs in retaliation for a deadly attack ...

  7. List of equipment of the Iranian Army - Wikipedia

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    IRGC service rifle. AK-103 rifle produced under license under the name AK-133, first unveiled in March 2018. An undisclosed amount of AK-103 rifles for use by special forces were purchased from Kalashnikov Concern and delivered in 2016.

  8. Quds Force - Wikipedia

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    After the Iran-Iraq War ended in 1988, the IRGC was reorganized and the Quds Force was established as an independent service branch. [18] It has the mission of liberating "Muslim land", especially al-Quds, from which it takes its name—"Jerusalem Force" in English. [19]

  9. Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force - Wikipedia

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    The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force, officially known as the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Air and Space Force [3] (IRGCASF; Persian: نیروی هوافضای سپاه پاسداران انقلاب اسلامی, romanized: niru-ye havâfazây-e sepâh-e pâsdârân-e enghelâb-e eslâmi, acronymed in Persian as NEHSA), is the strategic missile, air, and space force of ...