27th Mohammad Rasulullah Division

27th Mohammad Rasulollah Division
لشکر ۲۷ محمد رسول‌الله (ص)
Active1980s - 2008 (field division)
2008 - present (provincial corps)
CountryIran Islamic Republic of Iran
BranchIslamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
TypeMechanized
SizeDivision
Garrison/HQTehran
Nickname(s)"Muhammad Rasulullah" (محمد رسول‌الله (ص))
Engagements
Commanders
Commander in ChiefMayor Alireza Zakani
Deputy CommanderSirous Saberi
Deputy CoordinatorHossein Dini
Representative of the Supreme LeaderMohammad Na’imi
Notable
commanders		Ahmad Motevasselian

Reza Cheraghi
Mohammad Ebrahim Hemmat
Abbas Karimi
Dr.Mansour Haghdoust
Esmaeil Kousari
Hossein Hamadani

Mohammad Ali Allahdadi

27th Mohammad Rasulullah Division (Persian: لشکر ۲۷ محمد رسول‌الله) was a division of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Ground Forces based in Tehran.[2]

It was established as the 27th Mohammad Rasulullah Brigade by Hossein Qajeyi, Ahmad Motevasselian and Mohammad Ebrahim Hemmat during the Iran–Iraq War, and was expanded into a division just before Operation Jerusalem.

Describing the IRGC units during the Iran-Iraq war, then-commander-in-chief of IRGC Mohsen Rezaei says:[3]

We had four divisions that, anywhere they went, no [Iraqi] military force was able to resist against them. Haj Hemmat and [his] 27th Mohammad Rasulullah Division, Hossein Kharrazi and [his] 14th Imam Hossein Division, Mehdi Bakeri and [his] 31st Ashura Division, Ahmad Kazemi and [his] 8th Najaf Division—which whenever they entered, it resulted in success without exception.

  1. ^ Uprising shakes Iran Regime's foundations (PDF). Washington, DC: National Council of Resistance of Iran – U.S. Representative Office. pp. 39–40. ISBN 1-944942-37-8. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
  2. ^ "لشکری با 20 عملیات موفقیت‌آمیز و 4 فرمانده شهید".
  3. ^ سلیمانی, وحید. "شهيد احمد کاظمي، دٌر غلطان سپاه". www.tabnak.ir (in Persian). Retrieved 26 July 2019.