27th Mohammad Rasulullah Division ( fa, لشکر ۲۷ محمد رسولالله) was a
division
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of the
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Ground Forces
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based in
Tehran
Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul ...
.
It was established as the 27th Mohammad Rasulullah Brigade by
Ahmad Motevasselian and
Mohammad Ebrahim Hemmat
Mohammad Ebrahim Hemmat ( fa, محمدابراهیم همت, April 2, 1955 in Shahreza, Isfahan Province – March 7, 1984 in Majnoon Island, Iraq) was a teacher and an Iranian military leader. He was one of the highest ranking officers of the Isl ...
during
Iran–Iraq War
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, and was expanded into a division just before the
Operation Jerusalem
Operation Names of Jerusalem, Beit-ol-Moqaddas ( fa, عملیات بیتالمقدس) or Operation Toward Beit-ol-Moqaddas () was an Iranian operation conducted during the Iran–Iraq War. The operation was a success, as it achieved its stan ...
.
Describing the IRGC units during the Iran-Iraq war, then-commander-in-chief of IRGC
Mohsen Rezaei
Mohsen Rezaee ( fa, محسن رضایی, born Sabzevar Rezaee Mirgha'ed ( fa, سبزوار رضایی میرقائد) on 1 September 1954) is an Iranian Iranian Principlists, conservative politician affiliated with the Resistance Front of Islamic ...
says:
Sepah-e Muhammad Rasoul Allah
The division was merged with the
Basij
The Basij ( fa, بسيج, lit. "The Mobilization"), Niru-ye Moghāvemat-e Basij ( fa, نیروی مقاومت بسیج, "Resistance Mobilization Force"), full name Sâzmân-e Basij-e Mostaz'afin ( fa, سازمان بسیج مستضعفین, "The ...
of Tehran to form the Mohammad Rasulullah Corps of Greater Tehran during the rearrangement of the
IRGC
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC; fa, سپاه پاسداران انقلاب اسلامی, Sepāh-e Pāsdārān-e Enghelāb-e Eslāmi, lit=Army of Guardians of the Islamic Revolution also Sepāh or Pasdaran for short) is a branch o ...
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
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