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Kurdish separatism in Iran [17] or the Kurdish–Iranian conflict [18] [19] is an ongoing, [9] [12] [17] [20] long-running, separatist dispute between the Kurdish opposition in Western Iran and the governments of Iran, [17] lasting since the emergence of Reza Shah Pahlavi in 1918.
In the 1980s, Iran legalized Kurdish-language publishing to quell domestic nationalist sentiment and, during the Iran-Iraq war, even provided monetary support to Iraqi Kurdish separatist groups in an effort to destabilize Iraq. [17] In the 2000s, the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK) formed and has been engaged in a conflict with the Iranian ...
The insurgency by the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran surged in 1989, lasting until 1996, as part of the Kurdish separatism struggle. The eruption of the conflict in July 1989 was caused by the assassination of KDPI leader Abdul Rahman Qassemlou by suspected Iranian government agents. The most violent episodes took place in 1990 and 1991, when ...
Kurdish and Azerbaijani separatism in increased shortly after Second World War when the Soviet Union refused to give up occupied North Western Iranian territory. [32] The Iran crisis of 1946 included a separatist revolt of KDP-I and communist groups [33] to establish a Soviet puppet government, [34] [35] [36] and declare the Republic of Mahabad.
The Simko Shikak revolt refers to an armed Ottoman-backed [9] [14] tribal Kurdish uprising against the Qajar dynasty of Iran from 1918 to 1922, led by Kurdish chieftain Simko Shikak from the Shekak tribe.
In 1919, Kurdish chieftain Simko Shikak started his first Ottoman-backed revolt against the Iranian government. His expeditions resulted in regional plunder and massacres of Assyrians, Armenians, Alevis and even Kurdish tribes. After three years of revolt he was defeated, but in 1924 Reza Khan pardoned him and he returned to Iran from exile. [3]
Heading for Turkey to the north and Iran to the east, hundreds of oil tankers snake each day from near Kurdistan's capital Erbil, clogging the Iraqi region's often winding and mountainous highways.
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