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APPENDIX A

ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS

AD Air Defense
APC armored personnel carrier
ATGM antitank guided missile
Basij Iranian popular mobilization army
° C Degree(s) centigrade
C2 command and control
cm centimeters
FGA fighter ground attack
FHQ Field Headquarters
ft feet
GHQ general headquarters
IFV infantry fighting vehicle
IIAF Islamic Imperial Armed Forces
IIArF Iranian Islamic Air Force
IIGF Iranian Islamic Ground Force
IIN Iranian Islamic Navy
IISS International Institute for Strategic Studies
IRGC Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (Pasdaran)
IRP Islamic Republican Party
km kilometer(s)
LOC Lines of communication
m meter(s)
MG machine gun
MRL multiple rocket launcher(s)
nm nautical miles
OCU operational control unit
P-ID Political Ideological Directorate
RECCE Reconnaissance control element
RGC Revolutionary Guard Corps
RGFC Republican Guard Forces Command
SAM surface-to-air missiles
SDC Supreme Defense Council
SSM surface-to-surface missiles
TAPline Trans-Arabian pipeline
UAE United Arab Republic
UNIIMOG United Nations Iran/Iraq, Military Observer Group
UTC universal time coordinated