These are the orders of battle of the Iraqi and Iranian armies for the start of the
Iran–Iraq War in 1980. The data is drawn from the Air Combat Information Group's Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf Database.
Malovany (map p112) shows the 11th Infantry Division with elements north of the Rawanduz - Rayat road; the 7th Infantry Division advancing from its bases at Sulaimaniyah towards the border between Penjwin and Sayid Sadiq; and corps headquarters at
Kirkuk.
2nd Army Corps (sector between Qasre-e-Shirin, Ilam, and Mehran, armor deployed between Mehran and Dezful)
[10th Armored Division (HQ Baghdad, Iraq) 300 (T-62) (BMP-1); Malovany shows the division between Baqubah and
Tursaq, but notes it was moving to North Khuzestan.
2nd Infantry Division (HQ Kirkuk, Iraq)(Malovany map p112 shows the division deployed west of Badra, far to the south of Kirkuk.
4th Infantry Division (HQ Mosul, Iraq)(Malovany map p112 shows the division about halfway between Baqubah and Mandali, south of the road between the two towns.)
Sudan sent seven infantry brigades (53,000 men) to help Iraq against Iran.[1] In addition, 20,000 Arab volunteers fought in the Iraqi army[1] from five different countries, such as
Egypt,
Jordan,[2][3][4]Morocco,
North Yemen[5] and
Tunisia.
^Williamson Murray, Kevin M. Woods (2014): The Iran–Iraq War. A Military and Strategic history. Cambridge University Press.
ISBN978-1-107-06229-0 p. 223
E R Hooton, Tom Cooper, Farzin Nadimi, The Iran-Iraq War Volume 1: The Battle for Khuzestan September 1980-May 1982, Middle East@War #23, October 2019 Revised & Expanded Edition, ISBN 9781913118525. It's precise down the number of heavy vehicles (tanks etc.) per brigade as of September 1980.