{"id":5208,"date":"2026-03-05T16:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T16:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/5208\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T16:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T16:27:10","slug":"six-kurdish-iranian-groups-unite-in-coalition-against-tehran-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/5208\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Kurdish Iranian groups unite in coalition against Tehran regime"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Erfan<\/p>\n

Erfan Mortezaei, Mahsa Aminis cousin and his colleagues stand among the mountain on October 04, 2022 in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq as part of Komala Kurdistan<\/p>\n

Iranian Kurdish parties form a historic coalition to coordinate efforts and safeguard Kurdish interests amid regional unrest.<\/p>\n

Five Kurdish Iranian groups<\/a> agreed to form a joint coalition against the Iranian regime on February 22.<\/p>\n

These groups span a diverse spectrum of political ideologies, from the Right to the Left. Most of them have armed factions and a political party. A sixth group has now joined the coalition. The Komala Party<\/a> of Iranian Kurdistan joined the coalition on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Kurds of Iran stand united,\u201d Komala leader Abdullah Mohtadi<\/a> wrote Thursday on X. \u201cFor the first time, all major Kurdish parties have come together as one in a new coalition \u2013 a historic step toward shaping a new future for Kurds and a democratic Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n

Komala is a left-wing party with three branches. One part of the Komala Party had already joined the coalition on February 22. Now, a second branch of Komala has joined. The last remaining branch, which is more communist, has not joined.<\/p>\n

Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan\u2019s political bureau announced its decision to join the Coalition of Political Forces of Iranian Kurdistan, Rojhelat Info, a news site that covers Kurdish Iranian issues, reported.<\/p>\n

\"Kurdish<\/p>\n

Kurdish Peshmerga fighters affiliated with PAK train on January 18, 2026 near Erbil, Iraq. (credit: Ethan Swope\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

This means the coalition now includes the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan<\/a> (PDKI); the Party for Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK); Komala Party of Kurdistan, led by Reza Kaabi; Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK); the Khabat Organization of Iranian Kurdistan; and the Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan, led by Abdullah Mohtadi.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Komala said it had \u201chad intensive and productive participation\u201d in recent months of dialogue surrounding the coalition, Kurdistan Region-based news channel Rudaw Media Network reported. The party said it had \u201cinsisted on further clarification\u201d of \u201cpractical mechanisms\u201d for managing \u201cthe unified Peshmerga force of Kurdistan\u201d and \u201cthe joint administration of Kurdistan in the transitional phase.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Mohtadi wrote: \u201cThis is very good news for the people of Kurdistan, who need to close ranks more than ever, and encouraging news for all those working toward the great cause of political unity and democracy-seeking in Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n

This development further unifies the Kurds of Iran. It means they can coordinate their policy and actions.
It also reduces the chances that one group might be exploited or do something that leads to controversy among the other groups.<\/p>\n

In the past, some of these groups have not been on the same page about what type of activism and struggle should take place in the Kurdish regions of Iran. The Kurdish regions of Iran are called Rojhelat in Kurdish, meaning Eastern Kurdistan.<\/p>\n

Kurdish alliance positions itself for possible support<\/p>\n

The unity of the Kurdish Iranian groups will also enable them to discuss what kind of support they might want amid the war in Iran. This is important because Kurds find themselves between a rock and a hard place in Iran.<\/p>\n

Kurdish areas are being hit with airstrikes that target regime bases. Many of the Kurdish groups, however, have leaders who are in the Kurdistan Region of Northern Iraq. The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq has said it does not want to be dragged into a conflict with Iran.<\/p>\n

For instance, the KRG on Thursday said: \u201cReports that speak about the role of the Kurdistan Region and the allegations claiming that we are part of a plan to arm and send Kurdish opposition parties into Iranian territory are completely unfounded. We categorically deny them and affirm that they are being published deliberately and maliciously.\u201d<\/p>\n

The KRG emphasized that it was not \u201cpart of any campaign to expand the war and tensions in the region.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Erfan Mortezaei, Mahsa Aminis cousin and his colleagues stand among the mountain on October 04, 2022 in Sulaymaniyah,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[34,3306,3572,3305,3574,3573,3571,362,1625,3378,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-5208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tehran","8":"tag-iran","9":"tag-iranian-kurdish","10":"tag-komala-party","11":"tag-kurdish-groups","12":"tag-kurdish-iranian","13":"tag-kurdish-parties","14":"tag-kurdish-peshmerga","15":"tag-kurdistan","16":"tag-kurdistan-freedom-party","17":"tag-kurdistan-region","18":"tag-tehran"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116177511591100643","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}