Terrorism

TEHRAN, Iran  – Iran’s ex-president Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, an influential figure in the theocratic government for nearly three decades, died Sunday aged 82 because of a cardiac arrest, Iran state TV announced.He was one…

When most people think of Iran, they think “Death to America,” terrorists and turbans, evil-looking beards and missiles rising from bright, arid canyons. If they think further,When most people think of Iran, they think “Death to America,”…

TEHRAN, Iran – In the first five days of 2017, Iran had already executed at least eight people,Iran reportedly hanged three prisoners in Ghazal Hesar Prison in Karaj on Thursday for drug related charges.In the past five days, at…

It has been proven time and again that evil prevails if the good remain quiet. We have witnessed this so atrociously in the brutality of Aleppo. But the first step in bringing stability to Syria, is to bring justice to Iran.Iran is an…

At least seven people were killed in a double bomb explosion on the headquarters of a main Iranian Kurdish opposition party based in northern Iraq on Tuesday, a rare attack in the relatively stable autonomous Iraqi Kurdish region.The…

The twin explosions occurred around 10:30 p.m. in the city of Koya in Erbil province. “Besides strongly condemning the terrorist attacks and those who are behind the violence, we send condolences to the victims’ families and wish a…

KOYA, Kurdistan Region—The Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDP-I) will not respond to terrorist attacks with terrorism, said Khalid Azizi, the leader of the group at the burial ceremony of a number of his party members who were killed…

In a statement, PDKI condemns the terrorist attack by the Islamic State, IS, against civilians in the Kurdish city of Qamishlo in western (Syrian) Kurdistan.PDKI has learned that the IS carried out a coordinated terrorist attack against…

In a letter to the French president François Hollande, the leader of PDKI Mustafa Hijri expressed the party’s strong condemnation of the terrorist attack in Nice and the Kurdish nation’s condolences to the families and friends of the…

Kurds in London staged a demonstration in front of the Austrian embassy, condemning Iranian state terrorism and demanding that Austria reopen the Ghassemlou assassination case.Dr. A. R. Ghassemlou, one of the prominent leaders of the…

Taimor Mustafai, a senior PDKI official, announced PDKI’s call for a general strike at a press conference today, July 11.Addressing the Kurdish people, he stated that “the more we join forces in resisting the Iranian regime, the…

During the past weeks, PDKI’s Peshmerga Forces have clashed with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in several Kurdish villages and towns, resulting in heavy losses on the Iranian side. The IRGC has shelled villages and senior…

Following a strategic decision by PDKI’s leadership in 2015, our Peshmerga Forces have returned to eastern Kurdistan in order to carry out political activities and to facilitate closer interactions with the Kurdish people. This summer,…

They have now retreated to the mountainous region of Sawlawa and are bravely fighting back multiple Iranian forces. The Iranian military is using artillery and helicopters in enforcing a military siege of Sawlawa.PDKI’s Peshmerga…

The Operational Command of PDKI’s Peshmerga Forces released a statement on the clashes in Mariwan during the past two days. The clashes are still raging. Scores of Iranian soldiers have been killed and the bodies of 8 members of…