17th Ali ibn Abi Taleb Division

17th Ali ibn Abi Taleb Division
لشکر 17 علی ابن ابی طالب
Country	Islamic Republic of Iran
Branch	Basij
Type	Infantry
Size	Division
Part of	Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
Garrison/HQ	Qom Province
Nickname(s)	"Ali ibn Abi Talib" (علی ابن ابی طالب)
Engagements	Iran–Iraq War Operation Tariq-ol-Qods Operation Fath-ol-Mobin Operation Beit-ol-Moqaddas Operation Ramadan Operation Before the Dawn Operation Dawn 1 Operation Muharram Operation Dawn 3 Operation Dawn 4 Operation Kheibar Operation Badr Operation Qader First Battle of al-Faw Operation Dawn 8 Operation Karbala 1 Operation Karbala 4 Operation Karbala 5 Operation Karbala 8 Operation Dawn 10 Operation Mersad Operation Ashura 2^[1] Syrian Civil War Palmyra offensive (2016)
Commanders
Commander in Chief	Governor-General Mohammad Aghamiri
Notable commanders	Mehdi Zeinoddin

Military unit

17th Ali ibn Abi Taleb Division (Persian: لشکر 17 علی ابن ابی طالب) was a division of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps during the Iran–Iraq War. It covered Qom, Zanjan, Semnan, and Markazi provinces.^[1]

After Operation Tariq-ol-Qods, the 17th Brigade of Qom (تیپ 17 قم) was established in the Shush area. Fighters were from Qom, Mashhad, Behbahan, and Shush. Its commander was initially Morteza Saffari, who later became the deputy of Fajr Headquarters and was replaced by Hassan Darvish. In July or August 1982, the brigade was renamed to 17th Ali ibn Abi Taleb Brigade (تیپ 17 علی ابن ابی طالب). Since then, forces from Zanjan, Semnan, Markazi provinces constituted the bulk of the unit. In the fourth phase of the Operation Ramadan, Mehdi Zeinoddin was appointed as the new commander of the brigade. After Operation Muharram and the expansion of IRGC brigades, this unit was expanded to the 17th Ali ibn Abi Taleb Division. The division proved to be capable during the war. It played a major role in the initial successful stages of Operation Badr. From November 1984 to May 1988, Gholamreza Jaafari was its commander, after whom Mohammad Mirjani commanded the unit for two months. After Operation Dawn 10, commander of IRGC Ground Forces Ali Shamkhani separated and expanded the division into 17th Ali ibn Abi Taleb Division and a new 71st Roohollah Division (لشکر 71 روح الله) of Markazi Province. 12th Qaem Brigade of Semnan (تیپ 12 قائم) and Saheb-ol-Amr Brigade of Zanjan (تیپ صاحب‌الامر‌(عج)) were also later separated as new units.^[1]

Sepah-e Ali bin Abu Taleb

The division was merged with the Basij of Qom Province to form the Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib Corps of Qom Province during the rearrangement of the IRGC units in 2008.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c 17th Ali ibn Abi Taleb Division Archived 2016-08-11 at the Wayback Machine defamoghaddas.ir

External links

لشکر 17 علی بن ابیطالب(ع) در عملیات بدر (in Persian)

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

Commanders

Forces

Military Branches

Former divisions	8th Najaf Ashraf 14th Imam Hossein 17th Ali ibn Abi Taleb 25th Karbala 27th Mohammad Rasulullah 31st Ashura 33rd Al-Mahdi 41st Tharallah
Provincial Corps	Ardabil Hazrat Abbas East Azerbaijan Ashura West Azerbaijan Shohada Bushehr Imam Sadiq Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Qamar Bani Hashim Fars Fajr Gilan Quds Golestan Neynava Hamedan Ansar al-Hussain Hormozgan Imam Sajjad Ilam Amir al-Muminin Isfahan Sahib-az-Zaman Kerman Sarallah Kermanshah Nabi Akram Khuzestan Valieasr Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Fath Kurdistan Beit ol-Moqaddas South Khorasan Ansar al-Ridha Razavi Khorasan Imam Reza Razavi Khorasan Jawad al-Aemmah Losrestan Hazrat Abalfazl Mazandaran Karbala Markazi Ruhollah Tehran Muhammad Rasoul-Allah Tehran Sayid al-Shohada Qazvin Sahib al-Amr Qom Ali ibn Abi-Talib Semnan Qaim Aale-Muhammad Sistan and Baluchestan Salman Yazd Al-Ghadir Zanjan Ansar al-Mahdi

Former divisions