14th Imam Hossein Division

14th Imam Hossein Brigade
14th Imam Hossein Brigade
لشکر 14 امام حسین (ع)
Active	1979–present
Country	Imam Hossein" (امام حسین (ع))
Engagements	Iran–Iraq War Operation Commander-in-Chief; Operation Samen-ol-A'emeh; Operation Tarigh ol-Qods; Operation Fath ol-Mobeen; Operation Beit ol-Moqaddas; Second Battle of Khorramshahr; First Battle of al-Faw Operation Dawn 8; ; ;
Commanders
Notable; commanders	Hossein Kharrazi; Mostafa Raddanipoor

14th Imam Hossein Division (Persian: لشکر 14 امام حسین (ع)) is a division of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

It was first officially organized as the 3rd Imam Hossein Brigade during the

1979 Revolution, and the soldiers of the division were predominantly from the Isfahan Province

. It was later expanded into a division. It participated in various key operations and battles in the Iran-Iraq war.

Describing the IRGC units during the Iran-Iraq war, then-commander-in-chief of IRGC

Mohsen Rezaei says:^[1]

We had four divisions that, anywhere they went, no [Iraqi] military force was able to resist against them.
8th Najaf Division
—which whenever they entered, it resulted in success without exception.

On the 2nd of March 2024, the

Israeli Defence Forces claimed to have struck a vehicle in southern Lebanon containing members of the 14th Imam Hossein Division.^[2]

References

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^ سلیمانی, وحید. "شهيد احمد کاظمي، دٌر غلطان سپاه". www.tabnak.ir (in Persian). Retrieved 26 July 2019.
^ "IDF says it killed Hezbollah in strikes on terror group posts in Southern Lebanon". The Times of Israel.
^ "معرفي و نحوه تشکيل لشکر 14 امام حسين (عليه السلام)". Lashkar14.ir. Archived from the original on 2016-11-18. Retrieved 2016-11-16.

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[1] سلیمانی, وحید. "شهيد احمد کاظمي، دٌر غلطان سپاه". www.tabnak.ir (in Persian). Retrieved 26 July 2019.

[2] "IDF says it killed Hezbollah in strikes on terror group posts in Southern Lebanon". The Times of Israel.

[3] "معرفي و نحوه تشکيل لشکر 14 امام حسين (عليه السلام)". Lashkar14.ir. Archived from the original on 2016-11-18. Retrieved 2016-11-16.

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