The 41st Tharallah Division (also spelled Sarallah) ( fa, لشکر 41 ثارالله) was a
division
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of the
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
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 ...
from 1980 until it was merged into the Sarallah Corps of Kerman Province in 2008.
Formation
In 1980, a
battalion
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was established consisting of forces from
Sistan and Baluchestan province,
Hormozgan province and
Kerman province to fight in the
Iran–Iraq War
The Iran–Iraq War was an armed conflict between Iran and Iraq that lasted from September 1980 to August 1988. It began with the Iraqi invasion of Iran and lasted for almost eight years, until the acceptance of United Nations Security Council ...
. In 1981, it was expanded and organized as the 41st Tharallah Brigade ( fa, تیپ 41 ثارالله). It was further expanded to comprise 4 battalions by 1982, and 6 battalions later in that year. It was eventually expanded to a
division
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on 7 February 1983, with three infantry
brigade
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Br ...
s and one armored
battalion
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. In 1984, another brigade and one independent anti-armor battalion joined the division. The Anti-Armor Independent Battalion was expanded to the Anti-Armor Brigade a year later.
Operations
The unit participated in various operations during
Iran–Iraq War
The Iran–Iraq War was an armed conflict between Iran and Iraq that lasted from September 1980 to August 1988. It began with the Iraqi invasion of Iran and lasted for almost eight years, until the acceptance of United Nations Security Council ...
, namely
Operation Meymak (Ammar 3), Operation Nasr 4,
Operation Omm-ol-Hasanayn
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,
Operation Dawn 10,
Operation Beit-ol-Moqaddas 7,
Operation Bazi-Deraz 2
Operation or Operations may refer to:
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* ''Operation'' (game), a battery-operated board game that challenges dexterity
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,
Operation Karbala-5
The siege of Basra, code-named Operation Karbala-5 ( fa, عملیات کربلای ۵ ) or The Great Harvest ( ar, الحصاد الاكبر), was an offensive operation carried out by Iran in an effort to capture the Iraqi port city of Basra in ...
,
Operation Karbala-10
Operation Karbala 10 was a joint effort by Iran and Kurdish PUK rebels in Iraq.
Wanting revenge after their failed attempt to besiege Basra, the Iranians launched Operation Karbala 10 in northern Iraq on 14 April. They wanted to show the Ira ...
,
Operation Karbala-4
Operation Karbala-4 was an Iranian offensive in the Iran–Iraq War on the southern front. The operation was launched after the failure of Operation Karbala-2 and Operation Karbala-3 to move the Iraqi lines in an effort to capture Iraqi territ ...
,
Operation Karbala-1
In response to the loss of the strategic al-Faw Peninsula during the Iran–Iraq War, the Iraqis pushed into Iran to seize the strategic Iranian city of Mehran to trade for the strategically important territory. Saddam was able to seize the cit ...
,
Operation Dawn 8
The First Battle of al-Faw was a battle of the Iran–Iraq War, fought on the al-Faw peninsula between 10 February and 10 March 1986. The Iranian operation is considered to be one of Iran's greatest achievements in the Iran–Iraq War. The Ir ...
,
Operation Badr,
Operation Kheibar
Operation Kheibar was an Iranian offensive in the Iran–Iraq War. It was part of the Battle of the Marshes.
Prelude
After the unsuccessful major offensive named Operation Dawn V aimed directly at Basra, Iran opened a front at the lakes of the ...
,
Operation Dawn 4
Operation Dawn 4 ( fa, عملیات والفجر 4) was an Iranian operation of the Iran–Iraq War launched in October 1983. At the end of the operation Iran had captured a small amount of territory from the Iraqis.
Units of Iraq's 1st Corps s ...
,
Operation Dawn 3
Operation Dawn 3 or Operation Valfajr-3 (Persian: عملیات والفجر-۳) was an operation during Iran–Iraq War which was commenced on 3 August 1983 at 23 o'clock with the operation code of "Ya Allah" (Persian/Arabic: یاالله). This ...
,
Operation Dawn 1,
Operation Ramazan,
Operation Beit-ol-Moqaddas
Operation 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 standing aim of libera ...
,
Operation Fath-ol-Mobin
Operation Fath-ol-Mobin ( fa, عملیات فتحالمبین, a Quranic phrase meaning "Undeniable Victory" or "Manifest Victory") was a major Iranian military operation conducted during the Iran–Iraq War, in March 1982. The operation was ...
,
Operation Tariq-ol-Qods
Operation Tariq al-Qods ( fa, عملیات طریق القدس, meaning "Path to Qods") was a military operation launched by Iran during the Iran–Iraq War to free Bostan in the Khuzestan province. It was fought from 29 November to 7 December ...
.
Throughout the Iran-Iraq war, the commander of the unit was
Qassem Soleimani
Qasem Soleimani ( fa, قاسم سلیمانی, ; 11 March 19573January 2020) was an Iranian military officer who served in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). From 1998 until his assassination in 2020, he was the commander of the Quds F ...
.
2003 plane crash
On 22 February 2003 an IRGC aircraft crashed near
Kerman
Kerman ( fa, كرمان, Kermân ; also romanization of Persian, romanized as Kermun and Karmana), known in ancient times as the satrapy of Carmania, is the capital city of Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2011 census, its population was 821,394, in ...
, killing all 302 people on board, all of whom were personnel of the 41st Division.
Merge
The division was merged with the
Basij of Kerman Province to form the Sarallah Corps of Kerman Province during the rearrangement of the IRGC units in 2008. In 2009,
Brig. Gen. Mohammad Hejazi was commander who oversaw the suppression of the civil unrest in the
2009 Iranian presidential election protests.
[Yaghoub Fazeli. (20 January 2020). "Iran’s IRGC appoints new Quds Force deputy commander"]
Al Arabiya website
Retrieved 3 February 2020.
See also
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References
Military units and formations of Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution
Kerman Province
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