Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan – Reunification Faction

The Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan – Reunification Faction (Kurdish: كۆمه‌ڵه‌ی شۆڕشگێڕی زه‌حمه‌تكێشانی كوردستانی ئێران – ڕه‌وتی‌ یه‌کگرتنه‌وه, romanized: Komełey Şorrişgêrrî Zehmetkêşanî Kurdistanî Êran – Rewtî Yêkgirtnewe)[1] simply known as the Komala – Reunification Faction, was an armed communist and separatist ethnic party of Kurds in Iran, currently exiled in northern Iraq.

Komala – Reunification Faction
LeaderAbdulla Konaposhi
Founded29 April 2008; 16 years ago (2008-04-29)
Split fromKomala Party of Iranian Kurdistan
HeadquartersSulaymaniyah, Kurdistan Region, Iraq
IdeologyCommunism
Marxism–Leninism
Political positionFar-left
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It split from the Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan on 29 April 2008 over internal disagreements[2] and is led by Abdulla Konaposhi.[1][2]

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  1. ^ a b Romano, David; Gurses, Mehmet (2014), Conflict, Democratization, and the Kurds in the Middle East: Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria (1st ed.), Springer, p. 75, doi:10.1057/9781137409997_4, ISBN 978-1-137-40999-7
  2. ^ a b Ahmadzadeh, Hashem; Stansfield, Gareth (2010), "The Political, Cultural, and Military Re-Awakening of the Kurdish Nationalist Movement in Iran", Middle East Journal, 64 (1): 11–27, doi:10.3751/64.1.11, hdl:10871/9414, JSTOR 20622980, S2CID 143462899