1967 Kurdish revolt in Iran | |||||||
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Part of Iranian-Kurdish conflict | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Revolutionary Committee leadership:
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Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Mshl. Reza Pahlavi (Shah of Iran) |
Abd Allah Muini † | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
50+ |
Eight leaders assassinated or executed 40+ killed by KDP | ||||||
Total: 108 killed |
The 1967 Kurdish revolt in Iran (Sorani Kurdish: شۆڕشی ١٩٦٧ی کورد لە ئێران) erupted in March 1967, as part of the long-running Iranian-Kurdish conflict. Abrahamian describes the revolt as a Marxist insurgency with the aim of establishing autonomy for Kurds in Iran, modeled as a federal republic.[3] The revolt, consolidating several tribal uprisings which had begun in 1966, was inspired by the First Iraqi–Kurdish War in neighboring Iraq and enjoyed the support of the recovering Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran,[4] previously crushed during the 1946 Iran crisis. The 1967 revolt, coordinated into a semi-organized campaign in the Mahabad-Urumiya region by the revived KDPI party, was entirely subdued by the central Iranian government.
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was invoked but never defined (see the help page)....these Kurdish Democrats raised the slogan "Democracy for Iran, Autonomy for Kurdistan," and called for an armed struggle to establish a federal republic modeled after that of Yugoslavia on the grounds that Iran, like Yugoslavia, contained many diverse nations.