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These are the orders of battle of the Iraqi and Iranian armies for the start of the Iran–Iraq War in 1980. The data is drawn from the Air Combat Information Group's Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf Database.
1st Corps (Iraq), sector between Rawanduz and Marivan:
Malovany (map p112) shows the 11th Infantry Division with elements north of the Rawanduz - Rayat road; the 7th Infantry Division advancing from its bases at Sulaimaniyah towards the border between Penjwin and Sayid Sadiq; and corps headquarters at Kirkuk.
2nd Army Corps (sector between Qasre-e-Shirin, Ilam, and Mehran, armor deployed between Mehran and Dezful)
3rd Army Corps (HQ Qurnah, Iraq) (Sector between Dezful and Abadan)
Sudan sent seven infantry brigades (53,000 men) to help Iraq against Iran.[1] In addition, 20,000 Arab volunteers fought in the Iraqi army[1] from five different countries, such as Egypt, Jordan,[2][3][4] Morocco, North Yemen[5] and Tunisia.
Units Garrisoned along the Iraqi Border
Ground Forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
Iran was supported by the Iraqi Shia rebels and Lebanese Hezbollah.[6] Shia volunteer fighters also came from Afghanistan,[7][8] Pakistan,[9] India, Kuwait, Bahrain[10] and Iraq to help Iran during the war.[11]