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{{short description|Former division of the Iranian IRGC}}
{{short description|Former division of the Iranian IRGC}}
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| dates = 1980s - 2008 (field division)<br>2008 - present (provincial corps)
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* [[Iran–Iraq War]]
* Operation Mohammad Rasulullah
** Operation Mohammad Rasulullah
* [[Operation Fath ol-Mobin]]
** [[Operation Fath ol-Mobin]]
* [[Operation Beit ol-Moqaddas]]
** [[Operation Beit ol-Moqaddas]]
** [[Second Battle of Khorramshahr]]
⚫
* [[Operation Ramazan]]
* [[Operation Muslim ibn Aqil]]
** [[Operation Ramadan]]
* [[Operation Zein-ol-Abedin]]
** [[Operation Muslim ibn Aqil]]
* [[Operation Dawn (1983)|Operation Dawn-1]]
** [[Operation Zein-ol-Abedin]]
* [[Operation Dawn-3]]
** [[Operation Dawn (1983)|Operation Dawn-1]]
* [[Operation Dawn-4]]
** [[Operation Dawn-3]]
* [[Operation Kheibar]]
** [[Operation Dawn-4]]
* [[Operation Badr (1985)|Operation Badr]]
** [[Operation Kheibar]]
** [[Operation Badr (1985)|Operation Badr]]
* [[Operation Dawn-8]]
** [[First Battle of al-Faw]]
* [[Operation Karbala-1]]
*** [[Operation Dawn-8]]
* [[Operation Karbala-5]]
** [[Operation Karbala-1]]
* [[Operation Karbala-8]]
** [[Siege of Basra]]
* [[Operation Nasr 7]]
** [[Operation Karbala-8]]
* [[Operation Beit ol-Moqaddas 7]]
** [[Operation Nasr 7]]
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** [[Operation Beit ol-Moqaddas 7]]
[[1982 Lebanon War|1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon]]
* [[1982 Lebanon War]]
{{tree list/end}}
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| website = <!-- Commanders -->
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| current_commander = Mohammad-Reza Yazdi<ref name="NCRIUprisings2019">{{cite book |title=Uprising shakes Iran Regime's foundations |publisher=National Council of Resistance of Iran – U.S. Representative Office |location=Washington, DC |isbn=1-944942-37-8 |pages=39–40 |url=https://isjcommittee.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/ebook-Uprising-Shakes-Iran-Regimes-Foundations-2.pdf |access-date=22 October 2021}}</ref>{{rp|54}}
| current_commander =
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| commander1 = [[List of mayors of Tehran|Mayor]] [[Alireza Zakani]]
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| commander2 = Sirous Saberi
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| commander2_label = Deputy Commander
| commander3 =
| commander3 = Hossein Dini
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| commander3_label = Deputy Coordinator
| commander4 =
| commander4 = Mohammad Na’imi
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| commander4_label = Representative of the Supreme Leader
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| notable_commanders = [[Ahmad Motevasselian]]<br />
| notable_commanders = [[Ahmad Motevasselian]]<br />
[[Reza Cheraghi]]<br />
Reza Cheraghi<br>
[[Mohammad Ebrahim Hemmat]]<br />
[[Mohammad Ebrahim Hemmat]]<br>
[[Abbas Karimi]]<br />
Abbas Karimi<br>
Dr.[[Mansour Haghdoust]]<br />
Dr.[[Mansour Haghdoust]]<br>
[[Esmaeil Kousari]]<br />
[[Esmaeil Kousari]]<br>
[[Hossein Hamadani]]<br />
[[Hossein Hamadani]]<br>
[[Mohammad Ali Allahdadi]]
[[Mohammad Ali Allahdadi]]
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'''27th Mohammad Rasulullah Division''' ({{lang-fa|لشکر ۲۷ محمد رسول‌الله}}) was a [[Division (military)|division]] of the [[Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps]] based in [[Tehran]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mizanonline.ir/fa/news/182674/%D9%84%D8%B4%DA%A9%D8%B1%DB%8C-%D8%A8%D8%A7-20-%D8%B9%D9%85%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D9%85%D9%88%D9%81%D9%82%DB%8C%D8%AA%E2%80%8C%D8%A2%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%B2-%D9%88-4-%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%87-%D8%B4%D9%87%DB%8C%D8%AF|title = لشکری با 20 عملیات موفقیت‌آمیز و 4 فرمانده شهید}}</ref>
'''27th Mohammad Rasulullah Division''' ({{langx|fa|لشکر ۲۷ محمد رسول‌الله}}) was a [[Division (military)|division]] of the [[Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Ground Forces]] based in [[Tehran]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mizanonline.ir/fa/news/182674/%D9%84%D8%B4%DA%A9%D8%B1%DB%8C-%D8%A8%D8%A7-20-%D8%B9%D9%85%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D9%85%D9%88%D9%81%D9%82%DB%8C%D8%AA%E2%80%8C%D8%A2%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%B2-%D9%88-4-%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%87-%D8%B4%D9%87%DB%8C%D8%AF|title = لشکری با 20 عملیات موفقیت‌آمیز و 4 فرمانده شهید}}</ref>


It was established as the '''27th Mohammad Rasulullah Brigade''' by [[Ahmad Motevasselian]] and [[Mohammad Ebrahim Hemmat]] during [[Iran–Iraq War]], and was expanded into a division just before the [[Operation Jerusalem]].
It was established as the '''27th Mohammad Rasulullah Brigade''' by [[Hossein Qajeyi]], [[Ahmad Motevasselian]] and [[Mohammad Ebrahim Hemmat]] during the [[Iran–Iraq War]], and was expanded into a division just before [[Operation Jerusalem]].


Describing the IRGC units during the Iran-Iraq war, then-commander-in-chief of IRGC [[Mohsen Rezaei]] says:<ref>{{cite web |last1=سلیمانی |first1=وحید |title=شهيد احمد کاظمي، دٌر غلطان سپاه |url=https://www.tabnak.ir/fa/news/369328/%D8%B4%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF-%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B8%D9%85%D9%8A-%D8%AF%D9%8C%D8%B1-%D8%BA%D9%84%D8%B7%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%B3%D9%BE%D8%A7%D9%87 |website=www.tabnak.ir |accessdate=26 July 2019 |language=Persian}}</ref>
Describing the IRGC units during the Iran-Iraq war, then-commander-in-chief of IRGC [[Mohsen Rezaei]] says:<ref>{{cite web |last1=سلیمانی |first1=وحید |title=شهيد احمد کاظمي، دٌر غلطان سپاه |url=https://www.tabnak.ir/fa/news/369328/%D8%B4%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF-%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B8%D9%85%D9%8A-%D8%AF%D9%8C%D8%B1-%D8%BA%D9%84%D8%B7%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%B3%D9%BE%D8%A7%D9%87 |website=www.tabnak.ir |accessdate=26 July 2019 |language=Persian}}</ref>
{{quote|We had four divisions that, anywhere they went, no [Iraqi] military force was able to resist against them. [[Mohammad Ebrahim Hemmat|Haj Hemmat]] and [his] 27th Mohammad Rasulullah Division, [[Hossein Kharrazi]] and [his] [[14th Imam Hossein Division]], [[Mehdi Bakeri]] and [his] [[31st Ashura Division]], [[Ahmad Kazemi]] and [his] [[8th Najaf Division]]—which whenever they entered, it resulted in success without exception.}}
{{blockquote|We had four divisions that, anywhere they went, no [Iraqi] military force was able to resist against them. [[Mohammad Ebrahim Hemmat|Haj Hemmat]] and [his] 27th Mohammad Rasulullah Division, [[Hossein Kharrazi]] and [his] [[14th Imam Hossein Division]], [[Mehdi Bakeri]] and [his] [[31st Ashura Division]], [[Ahmad Kazemi]] and [his] [[8th Najaf Division]]—which whenever they entered, it resulted in success without exception.}}


== Sepah-e Muhammad Rasoul Allah ==
== Sepah-e Muhammad Rasoul Allah ==
The division was merged with the [[Basij]] of Tehran to form the '''Mohammad Rasulullah Corps of Greater Tehran''' during the rearrangement of the [[IRGC]] units in 2008. The Sepah-e Muhammad Rasoul Allah, the Sepah-e Sayyed al-Shohada and the Sepah-e Imam Hassan Mojtaba are controlled by the Sarallah Security Headquarters.<ref name="TWI Nadimi 21Aug17">{{cite web |last1=Nadimi |first1=Farzin |title=Murmurs of a Second Cultural Revolution |url=https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/murmurs-second-cultural-revolution |website=The Washington Institute |publisher=The Washington Institute |access-date=3 October 2021 |language=en |date=21 August 2017}}</ref>
The division was merged with the [[Basij]] of Tehran to form the '''Mohammad Rasulullah Corps of Greater Tehran''' during the rearrangement of the [[IRGC]] units in 2008. The Sepah-e Muhammad Rasoul Allah, the Sepah-e Sayyed al-Shohada and the Sepah-e Imam Hassan Mojtaba are controlled by the Sarallah Security Headquarters.<ref name="TWI Nadimi 21Aug17">{{cite web |last1=Nadimi |first1=Farzin |title=Murmurs of a Second Cultural Revolution |url=https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/murmurs-second-cultural-revolution |website=The Washington Institute |access-date=3 October 2021 |language=en |date=21 August 2017}}</ref>


=== Operational forces ===
=== Operational forces ===
The Sepah-e Muhammad Rasoul Allah performs military missions through the 27th Mechanized Infantry Operational Division. The Division is a cadre formation, consisting of four battalions. For combat operations, the 27th Division and the 10th and 23rd divisions are augmented by twenty-four Basij Imam Hussein battalions and four Sabirin quick-reaction units.<ref name="TWI Nadimi 21Aug17" />
The Sepah-e Muhammad Rasoul Allah performs military missions through the 27th Mechanized Infantry Operational Division. The Division is a cadre formation, consisting of four battalions. For combat operations, the 27th Division and the 10th and 23rd divisions are augmented by twenty-four Basij Imam Hussein battalions and four Sabirin quick-reaction units.<ref name="TWI Nadimi 21Aug17" />


Basij Imam Hussein battalions are staffed with full-time and salaried Basiji.<ref name="GolkarIRGCGFPG">{{cite book |last1=Golkar |first1=Saeid |title=TAKING BACK THE NEIGHBORHOOD The IRGC Provincial Guard's Mission to Re-Islamize Iran. |date=2020 |publisher=WINEP}}</ref><ref name="CTJan20DonovanCarlKagan">{{cite web |last1=Donovan |first1=Marie |last2=Carl |first2=Nicholas |last3=Kagan |first3=Frederick W. |title=Iran’s Reserve of Last Resort |url=https://www.criticalthreats.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/20200121-Report-Iran%E2%80%99s-Reserve-of-Last-Resort.pdf |website=www.criticalthreats.org |publisher=Critical Threats |access-date=19 September 2021 |pages=5,6 |date=January 2020}}</ref>
Basij Imam Hussein battalions are staffed with full-time and salaried Basiji.<ref name="GolkarIRGCGFPG">{{cite book |last1=Golkar |first1=Saeid |title=TAKING BACK THE NEIGHBORHOOD The IRGC Provincial Guard's Mission to Re-Islamize Iran. |date=2020 |publisher=WINEP}}</ref><ref name="CTJan20DonovanCarlKagan">{{cite web |last1=Donovan |first1=Marie |last2=Carl |first2=Nicholas |last3=Kagan |first3=Frederick W. |title=Iran's Reserve of Last Resort |url=https://www.criticalthreats.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/20200121-Report-Iran%E2%80%99s-Reserve-of-Last-Resort.pdf |website=www.criticalthreats.org |publisher=Critical Threats |access-date=19 September 2021 |pages=5, 6 |date=January 2020}}</ref>


=== Security units ===
=== Security units ===
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* Basij Resistance Precincts: each Basij Resistance Precinct controls two all-male Beit al-Muqaddas Battalions and one all-female Kowsar Battalion. These part-time units are tasked with cultural and cyber operations, urban defense, and search-and-rescue/relief operations.
* Basij Resistance Precincts: each Basij Resistance Precinct controls two all-male Beit al-Muqaddas Battalions and one all-female Kowsar Battalion. These part-time units are tasked with cultural and cyber operations, urban defense, and search-and-rescue/relief operations.
* Basij Resistance Bases: Basij Resistance Bases are scattered around neighborhoods in mosques, ministries, schools, and other sites. Within each Base, there are two all-male Ashura battalions and one all-female al-Zahra battalion. These units are tasked with cultural and cyber operations, urban defense, and search-and-rescue/relief operations but are staffed with personnel older than Beit al-Muqaddas and all-female Kowsar Battalions.
* Basij Resistance Bases: Basij Resistance Bases are scattered around neighborhoods in mosques, ministries, schools, and other sites. Within each Base, there are two all-male Ashura battalions and one all-female al-Zahra battalion. These units are tasked with cultural and cyber operations, urban defense, and search-and-rescue/relief operations but are staffed with personnel older than Beit al-Muqaddas and all-female Kowsar Battalions.
* 4 Basij Special Forces Fatehin Battalions.<ref name="GolkarProtestsOct20">{{cite book |last1=Golkar |first1=Saeid |title=Protests and Regime Suppression in Post-Revolutionary Iran |date=October 2020 |publisher=THE WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY |location=Washington, USA |pages=8 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344546690 |access-date=10 October 2021}}</ref>{{rp|8}}


When deployed, they answer directly to the provincial corps and operate under four citywide IRGC security units:<ref name="TWI Nadimi 21Aug17" />
When deployed, they answer directly to the provincial corps and operate under four citywide IRGC security units:<ref name="TWI Nadimi 21Aug17" />
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* Imam Reza.
* Imam Reza.
These units in turn report to Hazrat-e Zahra and All-e Muhammad brigades, attached to the Sepah-e Muhammad Rasoul Allah.
These units in turn report to Hazrat-e Zahra and All-e Muhammad brigades, attached to the Sepah-e Muhammad Rasoul Allah.

=== Other units ===
Tehran's cultural terrain is ìmonitored by Sepah-e Muhammad Rasoul Allah's "Cyberspace Cultural Operations Battalions".<ref name="TWI Nadimi 21Aug17" />

== See also ==
* [[Sar-Allah Headquarters]]


== References ==
== References ==
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[[Category:Military units and formations of Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution]]
[[Category:Military units and formations of Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution]]
[[Category:Military units and formations established in 2008]]
[[Category:Tehran]]
[[Category:Tehran]]
[[Category:Divisions of Iran]]




Latest revision as of 12:43, 6 November 2024

27th Mohammad Rasulollah Division
لشکر ۲۷ محمد رسول‌الله (ص)
Active1980s - 2008 (field division)
2008 - present (provincial corps)
CountryIran Islamic Republic of Iran
BranchIslamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
TypeMechanized
SizeDivision
Garrison/HQTehran
Nickname(s)"Muhammad Rasulullah" (محمد رسول‌الله (ص))
Engagements
Commanders
Commander in ChiefMayor Alireza Zakani
Deputy CommanderSirous Saberi
Deputy CoordinatorHossein Dini
Representative of the Supreme LeaderMohammad Na’imi
Notable
commanders		Ahmad Motevasselian

Reza Cheraghi
Mohammad Ebrahim Hemmat
Abbas Karimi
Dr.Mansour Haghdoust
Esmaeil Kousari
Hossein Hamadani

Mohammad Ali Allahdadi

27th Mohammad Rasulullah Division (Persian: لشکر ۲۷ محمد رسول‌الله) was a division of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Ground Forces based in Tehran.[2]

It was established as the 27th Mohammad Rasulullah Brigade by Hossein Qajeyi, Ahmad Motevasselian and Mohammad Ebrahim Hemmat during the Iran–Iraq War, and was expanded into a division just before Operation Jerusalem.

Describing the IRGC units during the Iran-Iraq war, then-commander-in-chief of IRGC Mohsen Rezaei says:[3]

We had four divisions that, anywhere they went, no [Iraqi] military force was able to resist against them. Haj Hemmat and [his] 27th Mohammad Rasulullah Division, Hossein Kharrazi and [his] 14th Imam Hossein Division, Mehdi Bakeri and [his] 31st Ashura Division, Ahmad Kazemi and [his] 8th Najaf Division—which whenever they entered, it resulted in success without exception.

Sepah-e Muhammad Rasoul Allah

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The division was merged with the Basij of Tehran to form the Mohammad Rasulullah Corps of Greater Tehran during the rearrangement of the IRGC units in 2008. The Sepah-e Muhammad Rasoul Allah, the Sepah-e Sayyed al-Shohada and the Sepah-e Imam Hassan Mojtaba are controlled by the Sarallah Security Headquarters.[4]

Operational forces

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The Sepah-e Muhammad Rasoul Allah performs military missions through the 27th Mechanized Infantry Operational Division. The Division is a cadre formation, consisting of four battalions. For combat operations, the 27th Division and the 10th and 23rd divisions are augmented by twenty-four Basij Imam Hussein battalions and four Sabirin quick-reaction units.[4]

Basij Imam Hussein battalions are staffed with full-time and salaried Basiji.[5][6]

Security units

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The metropolitan territory of Tehran is subdivided into 23 municipalities. In each Municipality there is a Basij Resistance District:[4]

  • 23 Basij Resistance Districts: each Basij Resistance District controls one Imam Ali Battalion, tasked with riot control and suppression.
  • Basij Resistance Precincts: each Basij Resistance Precinct controls two all-male Beit al-Muqaddas Battalions and one all-female Kowsar Battalion. These part-time units are tasked with cultural and cyber operations, urban defense, and search-and-rescue/relief operations.
  • Basij Resistance Bases: Basij Resistance Bases are scattered around neighborhoods in mosques, ministries, schools, and other sites. Within each Base, there are two all-male Ashura battalions and one all-female al-Zahra battalion. These units are tasked with cultural and cyber operations, urban defense, and search-and-rescue/relief operations but are staffed with personnel older than Beit al-Muqaddas and all-female Kowsar Battalions.
  • 4 Basij Special Forces Fatehin Battalions.[7]: 8 

When deployed, they answer directly to the provincial corps and operate under four citywide IRGC security units:[4]

  • Valiasr;
  • Hazrat-e Mojtaba;
  • Imam Hadi;
  • Imam Reza.

These units in turn report to Hazrat-e Zahra and All-e Muhammad brigades, attached to the Sepah-e Muhammad Rasoul Allah.

Other units

[edit]

Tehran's cultural terrain is ìmonitored by Sepah-e Muhammad Rasoul Allah's "Cyberspace Cultural Operations Battalions".[4]

See also

[edit]

References

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  1. ^ Uprising shakes Iran Regime's foundations (PDF). Washington, DC: National Council of Resistance of Iran – U.S. Representative Office. pp. 39–40. ISBN 1-944942-37-8. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
  2. ^ "لشکری با 20 عملیات موفقیت‌آمیز و 4 فرمانده شهید".
  3. ^ سلیمانی, وحید. "شهيد احمد کاظمي، دٌر غلطان سپاه". www.tabnak.ir (in Persian). Retrieved 26 July 2019.
  4. ^ a b c d e Nadimi, Farzin (21 August 2017). "Murmurs of a Second Cultural Revolution". The Washington Institute. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
  5. ^ Golkar, Saeid (2020). TAKING BACK THE NEIGHBORHOOD The IRGC Provincial Guard's Mission to Re-Islamize Iran. WINEP.
  6. ^ Donovan, Marie; Carl, Nicholas; Kagan, Frederick W. (January 2020). "Iran's Reserve of Last Resort" (PDF). www.criticalthreats.org. Critical Threats. pp. 5, 6. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  7. ^ Golkar, Saeid (October 2020). Protests and Regime Suppression in Post-Revolutionary Iran. Washington, USA: THE WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY. p. 8. Retrieved 10 October 2021.


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