31st Ashura Division

لشکر 31 عاشورا
Country|  Islamic Republic of Iran
Branch| Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
Type| Infantry
Size| Division
Garrison/HQ| East Azarbaijan Province
West Azarbaijan Province
Ardabil province
Nickname(s)| "Ashura" (عاشورا)
Engagements| 1979 Kurdish Rebellion
Iran–Iraq War

* First Battle of al-Faw

Commanders
Commander in Chief| Governor-General Zeinolabedin Razavi Khorram
Notable
commanders| Mohammad Ali Jaafari
Mehdi Bakeri
Amin Shari'ati
Ali Tajalaei (deputy)
Nader Ghazipour
Hamid Bakeri (deputy)
Dr.Mansour Haghdoust (deputy)

Military unit

31st Ashura Division (Persian: لشکر 31 عاشورا) was a division of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. It covers the provinces of East Azarbaijan, West Azarbaijan, and Ardabil.

It was first officially organized as the 1st Ashura Brigade (Persian: تیپ 1 عاشورا) under command of Mohammad Ali Jaafari during Iran–Iraq War, just before Operation Muharram. Its units had participated in various clashes after the 1979 Revolution. The brigade was later expanded into 31st Ashura Division. It participated in various operations of the Iran–Iraq War. Its notable commander was Mehdi Bakeri After Bakeri's death in Operation Badr, Amin Shari'ati was appointed as its new commander.

The division was merged with the Basij of East Azerbaijan province to form the East Azerbaijan Ashura Provincial Corps during the rearrangement of the IRGC units in 2008.

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* http://www.mashreghnews.ir/fa/news/485060/
* https://web.archive.org/web/20160816095404/http://defamoghaddas.ir/fa/unit/لشکر-31-عاشورا

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Commanders|

* Abbas Aghazamani
* Morteza Rezaee
* Mohsen Rezaee
* Yahya Rahim Safavi
* Mohammad Ali Jafari
* Hossein Salami
* Mohammad Pakpour

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* Ground Forces
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* 8th Najaf Ashraf
* 14th Imam Hossein
* 17th Ali ibn Abi Taleb
* 25th Karbala
* 27th Mohammad Rasulullah
* 31st Ashura
* 33rd Al-Mahdi
* 41st Tharallah

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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
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* 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

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* Intelligence and Security Organization
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* Imam Hossein University
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* Fars News Agency
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Economic branches|

* Cooperation Bonyad
* Khatam-al Anbiya
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