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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 ...
On 25 June, Iran reported killing 5 Kurdish separatists in West Iran, including "two leaders". [46] Following a series of continuous engagements and Iranian shellings on PDKI positions in the area, by 27 June both sides claimed dozens of fatalities, but without reliable figures according to Iranian IRNA agency. [47]
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 ...
In the battle of Gulmakhana, Kurdish forces under the command of Simko Shikak took control over Gulmakhana and the Urmia-Tabriz road from Iranian forces. Simko ordered his advisor and commander-in-chief of the armed forces, Amar Khan Shikak, to attack the enemy forces.
According to Iran's state news agencies as many as 47 Kurdish rebels and 17 Iranian soldiers were killed in the violence between February 25 and March 1, 2007. [ 29 ] In August 2007, PJAK claimed it managed to down another Iranian military helicopter that was conducting a forward operation of bombardment by Iranian forces.
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]
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