1967 Kurdish revolt in Iran

1967 Kurdish revolt in Iran
Part of Iranian-Kurdish conflict
Date1967–1968 (according to Entessar)[1]
1966–1967 (according to UOA)[2]
Location
Iranian Kurdistan
Result

Kurdish revolt suppressed:

  • KDPI retreats into underground until 1979
Belligerents

Iran Imperial State of Iran

Revolutionary Committee leadership:

Commanders and leaders
Iran Mshl. Reza Pahlavi
(Shah of Iran)

Abd Allah Muini †
Sulayman Muini Executed
Mullah Aware †
Ismail Sharif Zadeh †
Qadir Sharif

Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou
Casualties and losses
50+ Eight leaders assassinated or executed
40+ killed by KDP
Total: 108 killed

The 1967 Kurdish revolt in Iran 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.

  1. ^ Entessar, Nader (2010). Kurdish Politics in the Middle East. Lanham: Lexington Books. p. 50. ISBN 978-0-7391-4039-0. OCLC 430736528.
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  3. ^ Abrahamian, Ervand (1982). Iran Between Two Revolutions. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. p. 453. ISBN 978-0-691-05342-4. OCLC 7975938. ...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.
  4. ^ Benjamin Smith. Land and Rebellion: Kurdish Separatism in Comparative Perspective.P.10. "The Kurds of Iran: Opportunistic and Failed Resistance, 1918‐". [1]