2 Includes Abivardis, Afshars, Baharlus, Inanlus, detribalized Qashqais, and other Turkic-speaking groups. 3 0.007 percent. 1 Sixty percent of the army is reported to have deserted in 1979 after the Revolution began.
Figures given are for prerevolutionary period.
2 Conscripts made up 100,000 personnel for 1982 and 1984. The number was estimated at 200,000 for 1986. The Oman contingent had grown to 5,000 by 1979, when it was brought home. BGM-71A TOW n.a. CH-47C Chinook n.a.