The Islamic Republic of Iran Army[9] (Persian: ارتش جمهوری اسلامی ایران), acronymed AJA (Persian: آجا), simply known as the Iranian Army or the Artesh (Persian: ارتش, romanized: Arteš, (Ərtēš)), is the conventional military of Iran and part of the Islamic Republic of Iran Armed Forces. [10]

Iran has two parallel land forces with some integration at the command level: the regular Artesh (Army), and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, also known as the Sepâh (IRGC).

The Iranian Armed Forces, [a] officially the Islamic Republic of Iran Armed Forces, [b] are the combined military forces of Iran, comprising the Islamic Republic of Iran Army (Artesh), the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (Sepah) and the Law Enforcement Command (Faraja).

2011年11月15日 · The Air Force of the Artesh, with 37,000 personnel charged with the responsibility of defending Iranian airspace, relies largely on aging US-supplied aircraft purchased by the Shah.

2011年11月15日 · More than three decades after the Revolution of 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran Army [Artesh-e Jomhouri-ye Eslami-ye Iran] and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps [Sepah-e Pasdaran-e Enqelab-e Eslami] (IRGC), remain entangled in a state of fierce rivalry.

2011年11月15日 · One key stakeholder in Iran that deserves far more scrutiny in the West is the Artesh, the 350,000-strong regular armed forces. The Artesh has been largely ignored for two reasons.

2023年7月4日 · Looking at the evolution of the Artesh since the fall of the Shah of Iran, this study uses firsthand accounts, recent research, and governmental statements and reports to trace the Artesh’s...

2017年8月14日 · These shifts notwithstanding, efforts to broaden the Artesh profile and grant it offensive roles are not likely to alter the balance of power in Iran's military landscape. The national armed force, according to this view, will retain its inherently cautious and defensive position and remain mostly on the sidelines.

2025年4月1日 · The mission of Iran’s regular army, the Artesh, is to defend Iran’s borders from external threats. Its components include ground, naval (whose areas of responsibility include the Strait of Hormuz, Gulf of Oman, and the Caspian Sea), air, and air defense commands, with an estimated number of 420,000 personnel.

2017年12月2日 · Iran’s split military struc-ture – divided between the legacy conventional army, the Artesh, and the heavily ideological Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) – is arguably a reaction to these over-lapping factors, as is the country’s preference for military thinking that focuses on defense and asymmetric warfare.