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Iran is a country located in Middle East with an area of 1,648,195 km2 (land boundries: 5,894 km and costline 2,440 km - note: Iran also borders the Caspian Sea (740 km)). The capital of Iran is Tehran. The number of inhabitants is 83,183,741.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was formed in May 1979. The IRGC was a highly institutionalized and parallel military force to Iran’s regular armed forces. The Iranian military's inventory includes a mix of domestically-produced and mostly older foreign equipment largely of Chinese, Russian, Soviet, and US origin. Iran has a defense industry with the capacity to develop, produce, support, and sustain air, land, missile, and naval weapons programs.

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Military expenditures

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Military budget: 25 billion $ 341.71 billion $
Percent of GDP: 2.5% 0%

Military budget

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Highest value in the world: 816 billion $ (USA)
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Manpower

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Active personnel: 610,000 1,784,389
Reserve personnel: 350,000 1,948,632
Available for military: 23,619,215 133,633,500

Active

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Highest value in the world: 2,035,000 (China)
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Land Forces

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Tanks: 2,842 7,513
Armoured fighting vehicles: 3,555 45,472
Total artillery: 4,873 8,754
Self-propelled artillery: 1,030 2,861
Rocket artillery: 1,755 1,119

Tanks

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Highest value in the world: 12,267 (Russia)
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Air Forces

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Total aircraft: 973 8,174
Fighter aircraft: 112 643
Multirole aircraft: 75 1,169
Attack aircraft: 23 162
Helicopters: 519 3,552
UCAV (combat drone): 83 222

Total aircraft

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Highest value in the world: 12,930 (USA)
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Navy

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Total naval: 272 1,456
Aircraftcarriers: 0 8
Destroyers: 0 25
Frigates: 6 113
Corvettes: 3 32
Submarines: 19 75

Total naval

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Highest value in the world: 967 (North Korea)
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Nuclear weapons

Iran

Does not have nuclear weapons.

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Military service

Iran

18 years of age for compulsory military service; 16 years of age for volunteers; 17 years of age for Law Enforcement Forces; 15 years of age for Basij Forces (Popular Mobilization Army); conscript military service obligation is 18 months; women exempt from military service.

NATO without USA

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