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    "ocrText": "SECRET\nThe army is organized into ten infantry divisions and four independent\nbrigades. The First and Second Infantry Divisions, totalling about 25,000\nmen, are stationed in Tehran and are considered the best troops in the\nservice. The Third and Fourth Infantry Divisions have a combined strength\nof approximately 16,000 and are stationed in Azerbaijan. The remaining\ninfantry divisions and the independent brigades are scattered in smaller\nunits throughout various provinces.\nArmy strength is maintained by compulsory military service, males\nreaching the age of twenty-one being subject to conscription for two years'\nservice. Widely abused, conscription is often evaded by the peasants, who\ngive little support to the army, and by the tribesmen, who from time to\ntime actively oppose it. One third of the total standing army at any period\nconsists of recruits with less than six months' training. The army main-\ntains a training school for officers, but its Staff College was recently\ndiscontinued on grounds of inefficiency and expense. In spite of the fact\nthat a considerable number of the older officers were trained in European\nmilitary academies, their lack of leadership is one of the greatest weak-\nnesses in the military force.\nSome improvement in the army has resulted from the efforts of the\nUS Military Mission* to the Iranian Army, which was established as an\nadvisory body in October 1942 at the request of the Iranian Government,\nand which has for its primary function the improvement of the army's\nsupply and administrative services. Currently it is engaged in assisting\nwith the selection and purchase of surplus military supplies from the\nUnited States.\nb. Navy\nThe Iranian Navy, most of which was destroyed in a surprise attack\nby over-enthusiastic British forces in August 1941, is in the process of\nbeing re-established. Its current strength is estimated at 300 officers\nand men. Before the war, it had a few gunboats and patrol vessels, pur-\nchased from Italy; and its operations, limited to patrol activities in the\nCaspian Sea and in the Persian 'Gulf, were aimed at checking smuggling and\ngun-running to the tribes. Current plans call for the purchase of small\nships from the British and for the division of the service into Navy\nSouth and Navy North, the former to be based at Khurramshahr at the head\nof the Persian Gulf and the latter at Pahlavi on the Caspian Sea. The\nnavy is not likely to be any more than a small coast guard unit, incapable\nof mining strategic areas in the Persian Gulf or of offering resistance to\nan amphibious invasion along the shores of the Caspian.\n*\nHeaded by Brig. Gen. Robert W. Grow and composed of seventeen officers\nand seven enlisted men.\nIV-2\nSECRE"
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