With a newly-created army of 40,000 men ... is being utilized by the ever-expanding but still relatively small Iranian staff. The Imperial Bank of Iran, set back from the street, needed an ...

Immediately after the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, the mass purges by the revolutionary government devastated the toppled Shah’s Imperial Army high command. A great number of army generals ...

In 1964, the U.S. and Iranian military ... which an entire U.S. Army airborne brigate was airlifted to Iran with all its heavy equipment to train with the local Imperial Armed Forces.

With the fall of the imperial regime in Iran, the Americans had no more access ... Russian military commanders also trained Iraqi commanders and taught them ways to counter the Iranian army and the ...

These imperial hopes were crushed when rebels hostile to Iran toppled Assad in December. The deposed dictator fled for Russia. Iran’s paramilitaries, diplomats and companies beat their own hasty ...