Technically, Army is Air Force + Navy + Ground Forces combined together. Durind Pahlavi era, Air Defence was under Air Force command. Army + Gendarmerie and Shahrbani + SAVAK was called Armed Forces.
Technically, Army is Air Force + Navy + Ground Forces combined together. Durind Pahlavi era, Air Defence was under Air Force command. Army + Gendarmerie and Shahrbani + SAVAK was called Armed Forces.
I knew SAVAK and gendarmerie were under Army control; we had a major-general of the SAVAK living in our compound the first two years I lived there (1975-76), right off of Alvand near Saiei Park.