64th Infantry Division of Urmia explained

Unit Name:64th Infantry Division of Urmia
Native Name:Persian: لشکر ۶۴ پیاده ارومیه
Branch: Ground Force
Type:Infantry
Role:Combined arms
Size:Division
Garrison:Urmia
Nickname:Division of Urmia & 64th Infantry Division
Commander1:Governor-General Mohammad-Sadegh Motamedian
Commander2:Mohsen Nabipour[1]
Commander2 Label:Current commander
Commander3:64th Infantry Division of Urmia (Field administrative)
164th Infantry Brigade of Piranshahr
264th Infantry Brigade of Salmas
364th Infantry Brigade of Mahabad
Commander3 Label:unit
Notable Commanders:Qasem-Ali Zahirnejad
Battles:1979 Kurdish rebellion
Iran–Iraq War

The 64th Infantry Division of Urmia (Persian: لشکر ۶۴ پیاده ارومیه) is an infantry division of the Ground Forces of Islamic Republic of Iran Army based in Urmia. Over the 2011–2012 period, it may have become an Operations Headquarters, retaining command of its previous three brigades.[2]

It was active during the Imperial Iranian regime during the 1970s, as a brigade.[3] During the Iran–Iraq War it was reported at Piranshahr.[4]

Representatives of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (DPIK) in New York told the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada on 16 October 1996 that the 64th Infantry Division of Urmia (and, the Brigade of Salmas) were involved in human rights violations against Kurdish civilians between 1983 and 1988.[5]

Notes and References

  1. News: ارتش ايران مردمي‌ترين ارتش دنياست. . 1 February 2016.
  2. http://thearkenstone.blogspot.co.nz/2013/06/disappearing-divisions-64th-infantry.html Disappearing Division: The 64th Infantry Division
  3. Richard A. Gabriel, ed. (27 September 1983), Fighting Armies: Antagonists in the Middle East – A Combat Assessment, Greenwood Press,
  4. World in Conflict Annual
  5. Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Iran: Update to Response to Information Request IRN24243.E of 1 August 1996 on human rights abuses by the 64th Infantry Division of Urmia, the 2nd or 4th Brigade of Salmas and the 117th Battalion, also called the Strike Force Company, accessed 2016.