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Rank group Senior NCOs Junior NCOs Enlisted Imperial Iranian Ground Forces [1] [2] No insignia: سراستوار یکم Afsarnyār yekom: سراستوار دوم Afsarnyār dovom: استوار یکم Ostavar yekom: استوار دوم Ostavar dovom: گروهبان یکم Goruhban yekom: گروهبان دوم Goruhban dovom: گروهبان ...
Malekeh Queen Malekeh Jahaan World Queen, title shared by Nasser-ed-Din Shah's mother and Mohammad 'Ali Shah's wife. Mahd-e-Oliaa "Queen Mother" (Lit. Mahd = hearth or cradle; Olia' = most high; thus = "most high hearth or cradle" or "most high life giving place" ; i.e., place from whence one is born, and thus more elegantly translated as "Sublime Cradle."
The military ranks of Iran are the ranks used by the Islamic Republic of Iran Armed Forces. The armed forces are split into the Islamic Republic of Iran Army and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The ranks used by the Law Enforcement Forces share a similar structure to the military.
Imperial State of Iran. 1938 – 1938: Second Lieutenant, Imperial Iranian Army [3] 1938 – 16 September 1941: Captain, Imperial Iranian Army [3] 16 September 1941 – 21 July 1952: Commander-in-Chief of the Iranian Armed Forces [a] 19 August 1953 – 11 February 1979: Commander-in-Chief Iranian Armed Forces
The following article lists three Orders of Battle for the Iranian Army at different periods. Note, that this is not the order of battle of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards but of the regular ground forces ( Artesh ).
The 1st class was limited to the immediate Iranian Imperial Family, reigning monarchs, and foreign heads of state. The 2nd class was awarded to other male members of the Iranian Imperial Family and to crown princes of foreign nations. [1] The order was abolished by the Islamic Republic of Iran after the fall of the last Shah. Since then, the ...
Barons were the lowest rank of nobility and were granted small parcels of land. Earls were the next highest rank with larger land holdings. Dukes were the highest rank and held the largest holdings, known as duchies. The monarch was the ultimate authority and was able to grant and revoke titles.
"During the 1970s ..the Imperial Iranian Ground Forces was undergoing a rapid increase in strength; that year [sic] it was a largely mechanized and armoured force of about 220,000. In late 1977 its former organization into three army corps, with headquarters in Kermanshah , Tehran , and Shiraz , was dropped; divisional commanders subsequently ...