41st Tharallah Division

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Tharallah Division
لشکر 41 ثارالله
Country	Islamic Republic of Iran
Branch	Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
Type	Infantry
Size	Division
Nickname(s)	"Tharallah" (ثارالله)
Engagements	Iran–Iraq War First Battle of al-Faw
Commanders
Commander in Chief	Governor-General Mohammad-Mahdi Fadakar
Notable commanders	Qassem Soleimani

Military unit

The 41st Tharallah Division (also spelled Sarallah) (Persian: لشکر 41 ثارالله) was a division of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps from 1980 until it was merged into the Sarallah Corps of Kerman Province in 2008.

Formation

In 1980, a battalion was established consisting of forces from Sistan and Baluchestan province, Hormozgan province and Kerman province to fight in the Iran–Iraq War. In 1981, it was expanded and organized as the 41st Tharallah Brigade (Persian: تیپ 41 ثارالله). It was further expanded to comprise 4 battalions by 1982, and 6 battalions later in that year. It was eventually expanded to a division on 7 February 1983, with three infantry brigades and one armored battalion. In 1984, another brigade and one independent anti-armor battalion joined the division. The Anti-Armor Independent Battalion was expanded to the Anti-Armor Brigade a year later.

Operations

The unit participated in various operations during Iran–Iraq War, namely Operation Meymak (Ammar 3), Operation Nasr 4, Operation Omm-ol-Hasanayn, Operation Dawn 10, Operation Beit-ol-Moqaddas 7, Operation Bazi-Deraz 2, Operation Karbala-5, Operation Karbala-10, Operation Karbala-4, Operation Karbala-1, Operation Dawn 8, Operation Badr, Operation Kheibar, Operation Dawn 4, Operation Dawn 3, Operation Dawn 1, Operation Ramazan, Operation Beit-ol-Moqaddas, Operation Fath-ol-Mobin, Operation Tariq-ol-Qods.

Throughout the Iran-Iraq war, the commander of the unit was Qassem Soleimani.^[1]

2003 plane crash

On 22 February 2003 an IRGC aircraft crashed near Kerman, killing all 302 people on board, all of whom were personnel of the 41st Division.^[2]

Merge

The division was merged with the Basij of Kerman Province to form the Sarallah Corps of Kerman Province during the rearrangement of the IRGC units in 2008. In 2009, Brig. Gen. Mohammad Hejazi was commander who oversaw the suppression of the civil unrest in the 2009 Iranian presidential election protests.^[3]

References

^ "مروری بر عملکرد لشکرهای "41 ثارالله" و "14 امام حسین (ع)" در دفاع مقدس | دفاع‌مقدس". Defamoghaddas.ir (in Persian). Archived from the original on 2017-06-27. Retrieved 2016-11-16.
^ "Iranian Military Plane Crashes, 302 People Dead". Tehran Times.
^ Yaghoub Fazeli. (20 January 2020). "Iran’s IRGC appoints new Quds Force deputy commander". Al Arabiya website Retrieved 3 February 2020.

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