n 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 victims. A […]
Mustafa Hijri, leader of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI), visited Germany at the end of May and met with German officials. Mr. Hiri is currently in the United States and has held meetings with members of U.S. House […]
The Progressive Alliance organized a Parliamentarian Conference on 17-18 October, 2016, at the European Parliament in Brussels entitled “For a New Agenda for Peace and Justice”. Mustafa Hijri, Secretary General of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI), delivered the […]
New details emerged today on Iranian casualties in the heavy clashes between PDKI’s Peshmerga Forces and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Shno (Oshnaviah) on June 15 and 16. According to recent reports, an additional six members of Iran’s […]
Today marks the 70th anniversary of the Republic of Kurdistan. On January 22, 1946, Qazi Mohammad – revered as Peshawa (meaning leader in Kurdish) Qazi among the Kurdish nation – declared the Republic of Kurdistan in the city of Mahabad […]
Arash Saleh, representative of PDKI to the United States, participated in the annual conference of the Association for the Study of Middle East and Africa (ASMEA) on October 29–31 in Washington, DC. Along with other Kurdish political figures and academics, […]
The leadership of PDKI held its eleventh meeting, following the party’s 15th congress, to review current geopolitical developments in the Middle East, as well as prevailing conditions in the different parts of Kurdistan and Iran. According to the assessment of […]
In an interview with Seth Frantzman of the Algemeiner Mustafa Hijri, PDKI’s leader, discusses PDKI’s view on Iran’s role in the region Iran and the Kurdish nation’s struggle in Iran. Below is an excerpt of the interview: Mustafa Hijri, the […]
Loghman H. Ahmedi, PDKI’s head of foreign relations, was invited to the Swedish parliament to speak about the current situation in eastern (Iranian) Kurdistan and Iran’s domestic and foreign policies. Ahmedi stressed that Iran’s strategy in the Middle East is […]
By: Mustafa Hijri Currently, Iranian forces alongside with Shiite militias, who are funded and controlled by Iran, are fighting the Islamic State in Tikrit and other places in Iraq. The Islamic State, or Daesh, gained international attention following the seizure […]
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