Iranian Navy Overview - Iranian Navy (sitios de interés)

Islamic Republic of Iran Navy and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy

Personnel and organization:
The Islamic Republic of Iran Navy (also known as the Iranian Navy) has approximately 18,000 total Navy and 2,600 Marines. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (also called the Pasdaran Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy) has about 20,000 personnel (including 5,000 Revolutionary Guard Marines) and is administered separately from the Iranian Navy. Beginning in 2007 the two naval forces were reorganized with the Iranian Navy given responsible primarily for longer range and extended duration operations in the Gulf of Oman, into the Indian Ocean and the Caspian Sea; the Pasdaran Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy has been assigned operational control inside the Persian Gulf waterway.

Bases: Fleet headquarters and principal dockyard at Bandar-e Abbas, with lesser facilities in the Persian Gulf at Kharg Island and Khorramshahr, on the Arabian Sea at Chah Bahar, and on the Caspian Coast at Bandar Anzali. By 2009, a new 4th Naval District headquarters was established at Asaluyeh on the Persian Gulf for use by the Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy, and the 2nd Naval District headquarters was relocated to Jask on the Gulf of Oman for use by the Iranian Navy.