A Persian Take On The M1 Garand

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  • bdm
    Senior Member
    • Sep 2009
    • 613
    #1

    A Persian Take On The M1 Garand

    The good old M1 Garand
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    • bdm
      Senior Member
      • Sep 2009
      • 613
      #2
      Sorry the link did not post
      A Persian take on the M1
      http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2016/10/27/garands-of-the-shah-photo-essay/
      The story of the M1 Garand in Iran highlights a tale of interwoven politics that spans decades and is still being seen today.More than just the story of a service rifle in the Middle East, North Africa, (MENA)/Central Asia region, it crosses political and historical intrigue throughout.Mixed in is the history of American foreign military aid propping up the Shah’s regime, the Islamic Revolution in 1979, the ensuing Iran-Iraq War, and then the dissemination of the rifle into nearby Iraq and Afghanistan, possibly even Syria as some recent examples from various rebel groups there show.From the period of 1963 to 1967, the U.S Military established a Foreign Military Sales mission to Iran.

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        • Mike in NC
          Senior Member
          • Oct 2009
          • 280
          #3
          It has been suggested in the past, the scarcity of IHC Garands was partially due to a large percentage of them being sent to Iran. This article seems to lend some credence to that possibility. Probably won't get these back in the near future.

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            • Shooter5
              #4
              Neat. The authors data conforms to my experience, as well. IH Garands have turned up in both Iraq and Afghanistan. An IH captured early in OEF is on display at the JFKSW museum on Ft Bragg. Alas, I should have taken more pics and recorded more data on all the myriad of small arms encountered over the years; although I do have at least one Garand pic captured in northern Iraq. Kurdish peshmerga call them "em-yek" (literally translated as 'm-1') and used them during their long struggle against the arab Baath regime. They liked the powerful cartridge and many older pesh indicated the source of the rifles was Iran but how they ended up in Iraq was either unknown or unstated specifically. Many older pesh also received training on the Garand in Iran during the 1970s before the Algiers Agreement of 1975 ended those events.
              I have an old family friend from Iran who has a few pictures of his M-1 at basic training in the mid 1960s although he has no idea what mfg/serial number it was and would have had no interest anyways. Recently on deployment while transiting a Turkish military base, I observed a rifle marksmanship course with instructional signs set up for both the HK G3 and the reverse for the M-1.
              Last edited by Guest; 10-27-2016, 08:10.

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                • gunny
                  Senior Member
                  • Sep 2009
                  • 145
                  #5
                  Absolutely fascinating and incredible.
                  Thanks for sharing.

                  Gunny

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