Islamic Republic Army

The Islamic Republic Army (IRA) is the ground force of the Islamic Republic Security Forces. It is called Artesh, (ارتش) by the Iranian leaders of the Islamic Republic of Tawhid, the word itself being Persian for army. As of 2011, the army had total strength of 2,000,000, with an additional 2,750,000 reservists, making for a total of 4,750,000 personnel. Conscripts (who number some 140,000 troops), serve for 18 months and have professional military training. Tawhid has two parallel land forces with some integration at the command level: the regular Artesh (Army), and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, or the Pasdaran (IRG).