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ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: IRAN

THE IRANIAN MILITARY IN REVOLUTION AND WAR

THE IRANIAN MILITARY IN
REVOLUTION AND WAR

SEPEHR ZABIH

Volume 36

First published in 1988

This edition first published in 2011

by Routledge

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1988 Sepehr Zabih

Printed and bound in Great Britain

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

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ISBN 13: 978-0-415-57033-6 (Set)

eISBN 13: 978-0-203-83010-9 (Set)

ISBN 13: 978-0-415-61785-7 (Volume 36)

eISBN 13: 978-0-203-82906-6 (Volume 36)

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THE IRANIAN
MILITARY IN
REVOLUTION
AND WAR

SEPEHR ZABIH

First published in 1988 by

Routledge

11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

Published in the USA by
Routledge

in association with Routledge, Chapman & Hall, Inc.

29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001

1988 Sepehr Zabih

Printed in Great Britain by
Billing & Sons Ltd, Worcester

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Zabih, Sepehr
The Iranian military in revolution and war.
1. Iran. Military forces
I. Title
355l'.00955
ISBN 0-415-00476-4

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
ISBN 0-415-00476-4

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By the Same Author

Marxism and the working class , by William Gallagher (translated into Farsi), 1949

On youth , by V.I. Lenin (translated into Farsi), 1950

The communist mouement in Iran , (University of California Press, Berkeley, 1966). Also available in Farsi, 1985

The foreign relations of Iran (with S. Chubin), (University of California Press, Berkeley, 1974)

The Mossadegh era: roots of Iranian revolution (Lakeview Press, Chicago, 1982). Also available in Farsi, 1983

Iran since the Reuolution (Croom Helm, London; Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1982)

The left in contemporary Iran: ideology, organization and the Soviet connection (Hoover Institution Press, Stanford, 1986)

Abbreviations and Acronyms

APC	Armoured personnel-carrier
ARA	Artesh Rahaibakhshe Iran
AWOL	One who is absent without leave
C-in-C	Commander-in-Chief
H.I.	Hojatol-Islam
IIAF	Imperial Iranian Air Force
IIG	Imperial Iranian Gendamerie
IPD	Ideological-Political Directorate of the Armed Forces
IPSA	International Political Science Association
IRP	Islamic Republic Party
MAAG	Military Assistance and Advisory Group
NIOC	National Iranian Oil Company
NSC	National Security Council
POW	Prisoner of war
SAM	Surface to Air Missile
SCIRI	Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution of Iraq
SDC	Supreme Defence Council
Sepah	Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps
TOW	Tube-launched Optically-tracked Wire-guided

Cast of Principal Characters

MOHAMMADREZA PAHLAVI: The second monarch of Pahlavi dynasty who ruled from 1941 to 1979, and died in Cairo, July 1980.

Dr MOHHAMAD MOSSADEGH: Leader of National Front government, 19513; died in internal exile in 1966.

General GEORGE BROWN: Chairman of US Joint Chiefs in 1970s.

RICHARD HELMS: US Ambassador to Iran, 19727 and former CIA Director.

General ABBAS QARABAQI: the last Chief of Staff of the Iranian armed forces before the revolution.

Dr SHAHPOUR BAKHTIYAR: The last Prime Minister of the old regime.

Admiral AHMAD MADANI: First Defence Minister of the Provisional Government.

MEHDI BAZARGAN: Prime Minister of the Provisional Government, February-November 1979.

IMAM KHOMEINI: Official title of Ayatollah Rouhollah Khomeini, founder of the Islamic Republic.

ABOLHASAN BANISADR: First President of the Islamic Republic, January 1980 to June 1981.

HOJATOL-ISLAM (H.-I.) ALI KHAMENEI: Third President of the Islamic Republic since autumn 1981.

BASEEJI: Paramilitary volunteers controlled by the Sepah .

Dr JAMSHID AMLIZEGAR: Prime Minister from summer 1977 to summer 1978.

JAAFAR SHARIF-EMAMI: Prime Minister, August-November 1978.

General NASSER MOGHADDAM: Last Chief of SAVAK, executed in 1979.

General GHOLAMHOSSEIN AZHARI: Prime Minister of military cabinet November-December 1978.

General GHOLAMALI OVEISSI: Martial Law Governor, September-November 1978.

Ambassador WILLIAM SULLIVAN: Last US Ambassador to Iran, 197780.

General AMIRHOSSEIN RABII: Last Commander of the Imperial Air Force.

Admiral KAMAL HABIBOLLAHI: Last Commander of the Imperial Navy.

Ayatollah KAZEM SHARIATMADARI: One of the six grand ayatollahs representing Azarbayjan province.

General ABDOLALI BADREI: Last Commander of the Imperial ground forces.

AMIRABBAS HOVEYDA: Long time Prime Minister of the Shah, executed April 1979.

Dr IBRAHIM YAZDI: Foreign Minister and member of Revolution Council, February-November 1979.

General JAAFAR SHAFEGGAT: Defence Minister in the Bakhtiyar cabinet.

General ROBERT E. HUYSER: President Carters special envoy to Iran, January-February 1979.

General PHILLIP GAST: Head of the US Military Advisory Mission to Iran, MAAG.

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