77th Infantry Division of Khurasan

77th Infantry Division
لشکر ۷۷ پیاده
Country  Iran
Branch Ground Forces of Islamic Republic of Iran Army
Type Infantry
Role Combined arms
Size Division
Garrison/HQ Mashhad, Razavi Khorasan Province
Nickname(s) "Lashkare Pirooz-e Samen-ol-A'emeh" (The Victorios Division of Samen-ol-A'emeh)
Equipment M47 Pattons
BTR-50s[1]
Engagements 1979 Kurdish rebellion
Iran–Iraq War
Commanders
Current
commander		 Second Brig. Gen. Ali Jahanshahi
Notable
commanders		 Ataollah Salehi

77th "Pirooz-e Samen-ol-A'emeh" Infantry Division of Khorasan (Persian: لشگر پیاده ۷۷ پیروز ثامن‌الائمه خراسان‎‎) is an infantry division of the Ground Forces of Islamic Republic of Iran Army based in Mashhad, Razavi Khorasan Province.[2] It was formerly being called 77th Infantry Division of Khorasan and was renamed to "The Victor of Samen-ol-A'emeh" (پیروز ثامن‌الائمه Pirooz-e Samen-ol-A'emeh) later after the successful Operation Samen-ol-A'emeh during Iran-Iraq war, which was led by this division.

It was active during the Imperial Iranian regime during the 1970s.[3] During the Iran-Iraq War the division fought in the Operation Fath ol-Mobin (March 1982),[4] Operation Ramadan (July 1982),[5] Operation Badr (March 1985),[4] and Operation Karbala-6 in early 1987.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.acig.info/CMS/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=63&Itemid=62
  2. ↑ "جایگاه ویژه لشکر 77 در سرکوب ضدانقلاب". Tasnim News Agency. Retrieved 31 December 2015.
  3. ↑ Richard A. Gabriel, ed. (27 September 1983), Fighting Armies: Antagonists in the Middle East - A Combat Assessment, Greenwood Press, ISBN 978-0-313-23904-5
  4. 1 2 The Iran-Iraq War in the Air. T. Cooper, F.Bishop. 2003.
  5. ↑ Galen Wright, 77th Mechanized Infantry Division, The Arkenstone, Wednesday, December 28, 2011, drawing on the Air Combat Information Group and others.
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