- State affiliation · Iran
- Vigil category device · not official insignia
Identity provenance
State affiliation: Iran.
Vigil category device — drawn from this record’s own domain, echelon and role. Not an official insignia.
In brief
The Guard Navy's Hormuz district — seated at Bandar Abbas beside the Artesh Navy's own first district, and the regional command whose area is the strait itself.
- Scope
- Structure, role, lineage and links. No subordinate records published.
- Subordination
- Subordination reported
- Sources
- 3 on the record
- Record state
- Partial
- Broad area of activity
- The Strait of Hormuz and the Hormozgan coast, from Bandar Abbas
- Notable history
- The Guard Navy organises the Gulf into five geographic districts, and the first — seated at Bandar Abbas — is the one that matters most to this module, because its area is the strait. Bandar Abbas is also the seat of the Artesh Navy's first district, which is the clearest illustration of the two-navy overlap: two services, two headquarters, one port. Iranian media reported United States strikes at Bandar Abbas among the sites hit on 1–2 September 2026, carried here as an Iranian report rather than as an established fact about this command.
- Strengths
- Sits on the water the whole system turns on, with the short distances that make small-craft and shore-based methods viable.
- Limitations
- The same proximity makes it the most watched and most targeted naval geography in the region. This record carries no craft, no bases below the seat, no patrol areas and no assessment of condition.
Related locations
Strait of Hormuz: Area of emphasis as published — the strait and its approaches. No base, position or pattern is recorded. Bandar Abbas: The district's published seat. Structural association only.
Key events
Iran declares the Strait of Hormuz closed to normal commercial traffic
Iranian forces declare the strait closed and cross-strait traffic largely halts. Around 20 million barrels a day of crude and petroleum products moved through it in the 2025 baseline, together with close to a fifth of world LNG exports.
Quick actions
System access
Where this record connects into the rest of Vigil. Each row is here because this organisation actually reaches it.
Assessed as of — 2026-09 Last reviewed — 2026-09-09
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