27th Mohammad Rasulullah Division () was a
division of the
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Ground Forces
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Ground Forces (), acronymed NEZSA (), are the Army, ground forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The IRGC Ground Forces are more geared towards internal disorder than the regular Iranian A ...
based in
Tehran
Tehran (; , ''Tehrân'') is the capital and largest city of Iran. It is the capital of Tehran province, and the administrative center for Tehran County and its Central District (Tehran County), Central District. With a population of around 9. ...
.
It was established as the 27th Mohammad Rasulullah Brigade by
Hossein Qajeyi,
Ahmad Motevasselian
Ahmad Motevaselian () was an Iranian Officer (armed forces), military officer and Military attaché, attaché who was one of four Iranians who disappeared in Lebanon in 1982. During the Iran–Iraq War, he served as a commander in the Islamic Revo ...
and
Mohammad Ebrahim Hemmat
Mohammad Ebrahim Hemmat (, April 2, 1955 – March 7, 1984) was an Iranian military leader and teacher. He was one of the highest ranking officers of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps during the Iran–Iraq War, Iran-Iraq War. In 1982, he spen ...
during the
Iran–Iraq War
The Iran–Iraq War, also known as the First Gulf War, was an armed conflict between Iran and Iraq that lasted from September 1980 to August 1988. Active hostilities began with the Iraqi invasion of Iran and lasted for nearly eight years, unti ...
, and was expanded into a division just before
Operation Jerusalem
Operation Beit-ol-Moqaddas (; Operation Jerusalem), also known as the Operation Toward Beit-ol-Moqaddas (), was an Iranian operation conducted during the Iran–Iraq War. The operation was a success, as it achieved its standing aim of liberati ...
.
Describing the IRGC units during the Iran-Iraq war, then-commander-in-chief of IRGC
Mohsen Rezaei
Mohsen Rezaee Mirgha'ed (, born Sabzevar Rezaee Mirgha'ed (); born 1 September 1954) is an Iranian Iranian Principlists, conservative politician affiliated with the Resistance Front of Islamic Iran and senior military officer in the Islamic Revo ...
says:
Sepah-e Muhammad Rasoul Allah
The division was merged with the
Basij
The Basij (, lit. ''The Mobilization'') or Sâzmân-e Basij-e Mostaz'afin (, lit. ''Organization for Mobilization of the Oppressed''), is a paramilitary volunteer militia within the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and one of its five ...
of Tehran to form the Mohammad Rasulullah Corps of Greater Tehran during the rearrangement of the
IRGC
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), also known as the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, is a multi-service primary branch of the Iranian Armed Forces. It was officially established by Ruhollah Khomeini as a military branch in May 1979 i ...
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.
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.
Basij Imam Hussein battalions are staffed with full-time and salaried Basiji.
Security units
The metropolitan territory of Tehran is subdivided into 23 municipalities. In each Municipality there is a Basij Resistance District:
* 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.
When deployed, they answer directly to the provincial corps and operate under four citywide IRGC security units:
* 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
Tehran's cultural terrain is ìmonitored by Sepah-e Muhammad Rasoul Allah's "Cyberspace Cultural Operations Battalions".
See also
*
Sar-Allah Headquarters
References
Military units and formations of Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution
Military units and formations established in 2008
Tehran
Divisions of Iran
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