"ملاحظات عن الجيش الإيراني" [ظ‎‎١‎٢] (٧٠/٢٤)

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CHAPTER HI.
Personnel.
1. Laws of military service.
From 1842 to 1924 a system of compulsory military service existed
in Iran, known as the “ Bonicheh ” system and based on an agricultural
survey. Every district was assessed at so many “ ploughs ”, and for
every plough Government was entitled to the services of one man.
On December 25th, 1924, the first conscription law was passed
and certain amendments were made on September 22nd, 1931. This
law was superseded on June 19th, 1938, when the present Act came into
force.
By the provisions of this Act, every male Iranian subject (including
Iranian subjects resident abroad) is liable to military service on reach
ing 21 years of age. Exemption is granted to those physically unfit or
under 5 feet in height, licenced doctors of religious law, superior eccle
siastics of the Zoroastrian, Jewish and Christian religions, professors
of science and theology, the only son supporting his parents or parent,
younger of two sons if the elder is serving, one of two brothers of which
the other has died in military service, and students studying abroad
until their period of study is completed.
2. Terms of service and periods of training.
The total liability for military service is 25 years.
This period is divided as follows :—
(a) Two years with the colours.
(b) Four years in the Reserve, during the last year of which he un
dergoes one month’s training.
(c) Fourteen years in the 1st Supplementary Reserve, during which
he undergoes six periods of one month’s training.
(d) Five years in the 2nd. Supplementary Reserve.
Voluntary extension of colour service is permitted and encouraged.
If the volunteer is considered suitable, he is sent for a course of instruc
tion to the N. C. Os. School of the division in which he is serving.
3. Recruiting statistics and reserves available.
No statistics are published, but a calculation on the basis of 1%
of that portion of the population inhabiting area where conscription
is enforceable would give 60,000 as the estimate for the annual intake
of conscripts. The intake for 1935-36 was (unofficially) calculated to
be 45,000.