Operations Department'. After the Iran-Iraq War ended in 1988, the IRGC was reorganized and the Quds Force was established as an independent service branch. It has the mission of liberating "Muslim land", especially al-Quds, from which it takes its name--"Jerusalem Force" in English.

Both during and after the war, it provided support to the Kurds fighting Saddam Hussein. In 1982, a Quds unit was