27th Mohammad Rasulullah Division

27th Mohammad Rasulollah Division
27th Mohammad Rasulollah Division
لشکر ۲۷ محمد رسول‌الله (ص)
Active	1980s - 2008 (field division); 2008 - present (provincial corps)
Country	Islamic Republic of Iran
Branch	Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
Type	Mechanized
Size	Division
Garrison/HQ	Tehran
Nickname(s)	"Muhammad Rasulullah" (محمد رسول‌الله (ص))
Engagements	Iran–Iraq War Operation Mohammad Rasulullah; Operation Fath ol-Mobin; Operation Beit ol-Moqaddas; Second Battle of Khorramshahr; Operation Ramadan; Operation Muslim ibn Aqil; Operation Zein-ol-Abedin; Operation Dawn-1; Operation Dawn-3; Operation Dawn-4; Operation Kheibar; Operation Badr; Operation Dawn-8; Operation Karbala-1; Siege of Basra; Operation Karbala-8; Operation Nasr 7; Operation Beit ol-Moqaddas 7; ; 1982 Lebanon War;
Commanders
Commander in Chief	Mayor Alireza Zakani
Deputy Commander	Sirous Saberi
Deputy Coordinator	Hossein Dini
Representative of the Supreme Leader	Mohammad Na’imi
Notable; commanders	Ahmad Motevasselian; Reza Cheraghi; Mohammad Ebrahim Hemmat; Abbas Karimi; Dr.Mansour Haghdoust; Esmaeil Kousari; Hossein Hamadani; Mohammad Ali Allahdadi

27th Mohammad Rasulullah Division (Persian: لشکر ۲۷ محمد رسول‌الله) was a division of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Ground Forces based in Tehran.

It was established as the 27th Mohammad Rasulullah Brigade by Hossein Qajeyi, Ahmad Motevasselian and Mohammad Ebrahim Hemmat during the Iran–Iraq War, and was expanded into a division just before Operation Jerusalem.

Describing the IRGC units during the Iran-Iraq war, then-commander-in-chief of IRGC Mohsen Rezaei says:

We had four divisions that, anywhere they went, no [Iraqi] military force was able to resist against them. Haj Hemmat and [his] 27th Mohammad Rasulullah Division, Hossein Kharrazi and [his] 14th Imam Hossein Division, Mehdi Bakeri and [his] 31st Ashura Division, Ahmad Kazemi and [his] 8th Najaf Division—which whenever they entered, it resulted in success without exception.

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