Drawing shows special Sassanid Border Patrol units in Hyrcania called Savaran. They were quickly dispatched from castles in the area for swift attacks on invading Heptalites.

Iranian Cossack Brigade serving under Reza Khan Pahlavi, seen in a Garrison, eastern Iran, 1926. Light Cavalry units had always been an inseparable part of the army patrolling the vast terrain for its high mobility and fast response capability.

Safavi Cavalary Unit

Toy Persian Cavalry

Iranian cavalry units passing Darvazeh Dowlat, one of several gates to Historical Tehran

Iranian Cavalry 1930s

Under British command, Parade of Indian Cavalry in Shiraz 1912.

Pahlavi Reza Khan heading his Kazak(Cossack) Cavalry at a garrioson in eastern Iran in 1926. Cossacks were originally autonomous communities drawn from various ethnic and linguistic groups that formed about 1400 and were incorporated into czarist Russia.

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