Editing Iranian Mechanized Platoon (section)

==IRL==
The Iranian army was not in a good place after the revolution due to the inevitable political purges, and some early defections and defeats in the initial wave of the Iraqi offensive cemented the fate of the Army coming second to the political Revolutionary Guard Corps in terms of reliability. Expected to make do with a load of equipment they were running low on spare parts for, the Army, IRGC, and the militias like the Basji essentially fought as completely isolated forces against the Iraqis for the first year of the war. After the Iraqi invasion stalled out at the end of 1980, the Army and IRGC had time time to rebuild, dig in, and get ready to strike back. 

By 1985, both the IRGC and Iranian Army were much improved over their state at the start. With the NCO corps mostly escaping the political purges or defecting to the new IRGC, along with low level officers, they were quickly able to shape up and start fighting on the level they were before the war. Sadly enough, lack of equipment and outside support would lead to further issues later on. The Iranian supply of arms was further hampered by infrastructure damage early in the war, often blamed on either counterrevolutionaries, the CIA, the KGB, or simply lack of parts to repair existing arms manufacturing.

Oddly enough, your average Iranian soldier's equipment at the start of the war was not too dissimilar to that of your average German Jaeger. The Iranians used (and still use) G3's and MG3's, all built locally under license (and without license later on). 

{{Iranian Forces in Team Yankee}}