Order of battle during the Iran–Iraq War
These are the orders of battle of the Iraqi and Iranian armies for the start of the Iran–Iraq War in 1980. The data is drawn from the Air Combat Information Group's Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf Database.
Iraq
National Defense Battalions
Iraqi Army
1st Army Corps (sector between Rawanduz and Marivan)
- 7th Infantry Division (HQ Sulaimaniyah, Iraq)
- 11th Infantry Division (HQ Sulaimaniyah, Iraq) (-) (113th Infantry Brigade)
2nd Army Corps (sector between Qasre-e-Shirin, Ilam, and Mehran, armor deployed between Mehran and Dezful)
- 6th Armored Division (HQ Baqubah, Iraq) 300 (T-62) (BMP-1)
- 9th Armored Division (HQ Samavah, Iraq) 300 (T-62) (BMP-1)
- ?10th Armored Division (HQ Baghdad, Iraq) 300 (T-62) (BMP-1)
- 2nd Infantry Division (HQ Kirkuk, Iraq)
- 4th Infantry Division (HQ Mosul, Iraq)
- 6th Infantry Division (HQ Baqubah, Iraq)
- 8th Infantry Division (HQ Arbil, Iraq)
3rd Army Corps (HQ al-Qurnah, Iraq) (Sector between Dezful and Abadan)
- 3rd Armored Division (HQ Tikrit, Iraq) 300 (T-62) (BMP-1)
- ?10th Armored Division (HQ Baghdad, Iraq) 300 (T-62) (BMP-1)
- 12th Armored Division (HQ Dohuk, Iraq) (Held in Reserve) 300 (T-62) (BMP-1)
- 1st Mechanized Division (HQ Divaniyah, Iraq) 200 (T-55) (Czech OT-64 APC/BTR-50 APC)
- 5th Mechanized Division (HQ Basrah, Iraq) 200 (T-55) (Czech OT-64 APC/BTR-50 APC)
- 31st Independent Special Forces Brigade (-) (2 battalions) (one was attached to 5th MD, another to 3rd AD),
- 33rd Independent Special Forces Brigade
- 10th Independent Armored Brigade (T-72) (BMP-1)
- 12th Independent Armored Brigade (T-62) (BMP-1)
- 113th Infantry Brigade (Detachments) (From 11th Infantry Division)
Iran
- Army
- Revolutionary Guards (Pasdaran)
- Ground Forces
- Basij[lower-alpha 4]
- Air Force (1985–1988)
- Navy (1985–1988)
- Quds Force
- Gendarmerie
- Jihad of Construction
- Irregular Warfare Headquarters (1980–1982)
- Shahrbani
Iranian Army
Units Garrisoned along the Iraqi Border
- 16th Armored Division (Ghazvin, Iran) (M60A1, Chieftain Mk3/5, M113)
- 81st Armored Division (Kermanshah, Iran) (M60A1) (M113)
- 92nd Armored Division (Khuzestan, Iran) (M60A1, Chieftain Mk3/5) (M113)
- 21st Infantry Division (Tehran, Iran)
- 28th Infantry Division (Sanandaj, Saquez, and Marivan, Iran) (1 Armored Brigade) (M60A1) (M113)
- 64th Infantry Division (Orumiyeh, Iran)
- 77th Infantry Division (Khorasan, Iran) (1 Armored Brigade) (M48A5 MBT) (BTR-50)
- 37th Armored Brigade (Shiraz, Iran)
- 88th Armored Brigade (Zahedan (M47 MBT) (covering the borders to Afghanistan and Pakistan)
- 30th Infantry Brigade (Gorgan, Iran)
- 84th Infantry Brigade (Khoramabad, Iran) (Deployed in Field) (Connecting the positions of the 81st and 92nd AD)
- 23rd Airborne Special Forces Brigade (Tehran, Iran) (Deployed along the Iraqi border in 13 separate Detachments)
- 55th Airborne Brigade (Shiraz, Iran) (One battalion deployed in Sardasht, and a company each in Sanandaj and Dezful, Iran)
- 58th Takavar Division (Shahroud)
- 11th Independent Artillery Group
- 22nd Independent Artillery Group (Khuzestan, Iran)
- 33rd Independent Artillery Group
- 44th Independent Artillery Group
- 55th Independent Artillery Group (Khuzestan, Iran)
- 411th Engineering Group of Borujerd
Iranian Navy
Revolutionary Guards (Pasdaran)
Ground Forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
- 8th Najaf Ashraf Division (Najafabad County, Isfahan)
- 14th Imam Hossein Division (Isfahan)
- 17th Ali ibn Abi Taleb Division (Qom)
- 25th Karbala Division (Mazandaran)
- 27th Mohammad Rasulullah Division (Tehran)
- 31st Ashura Division (East Azarbaijan, West Azarbaijan, Ardabil)
- 33rd Al-Mahdi Brigade (Fars)
- 41st Tharallah Division (Kerman)
- unnamed others
Notes
- ↑ Including Army Aviation forces.
- ↑ Including Air Defense forces.
- ↑ Including Navy Aviation forces.
- ↑ Basij was initially an independent organization and on 17 February 1981 it was officially incorporated into the Revolutionary Guards organization structure by the Iranian Parliament.[1]
Sources
- Tom Cooper & Farzad Bishop, with additional details from N. R., I Persian Gulf War: Iraqi Invasion of Iran, September 1980, Sep 9, 2003, 06:33, Air Combat Information Group
- ↑ Alfoneh, Ali (2013), Iran Unveiled: How the Revolutionary Guards Is Transforming Iran from Theocracy into Military Dictatorship, AEI Press, p. 49
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