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IRAN REVOLUTIONARY GUARD CORPS

By about 2004 most divisions had been converted to brigades. Because of increasing tension with the US Iran in 2007-08 undertook to reraise divisions and create new ones, for a total of 31.

This orbat dates back to 2001, before the division-to-brigade change took place. We cannot say if the old division numbers were retained in the 2007-08 buildup.

NORTHERN OPERATIONS SECTOR

(Northern Iraq and Turkish borders)

3rd “Special Assignments” Division (2008)

6th Infantry Division

8th Infantry Division

9th Infantry Division

10th Infantry Division (2008; now called “Special Assignments Division”)

11th Infantry Division

12th IRGC Infantry Division Khorramabad (2008; may be higher manned)

33rd Infantry Division

WESTERN OPERATIONS SECTOR

(Iraq border)

(Responsible for the defense of Kordestan, Bakhtaran, and Ilam Provinces; note: Kermanshah was renamed Bakhtaran, in summer of 1980, then back to Kermanshah, shortly after the war with Iraq)

1st IRGC Infantry Division Tehran (2008)

1st IRGC Armored Division (2003)

30th Armored Division

15th Mechanized Infantry Division

17th Mechanized Infantry Division

25th Infantry Division (2008; now called “special assignments division”)

28th Infantry Division

32nd Mechanized Infantry Division

41st Infantry Division

57th Infantry Division

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