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Early Wednesday morning, 6 May 2026, Iran’s terrorist IRGC conducted drone strikes against the PDKI’s Girde Chal camp. Two drones hit the perimeter of the camp, which serves as a residence for the families of PDKI members.

These attacks form part of a sustained military campaign by the Islamic Republic. Since the outbreak of armed hostilities between Iran, the United States and Israel, the Iranian regime has systematically attacked PDKI’s civilian camps, targeting medical and educational facilities in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

Iran targets are non-combatant in character: civilian houses, clinics, and classrooms. They hold no military value. Their deliberate selection reflects a policy of the Islamic Republic to project terror against the families of those who oppose its rule, a policy executed in open violation of international humanitarian law and of the territorial sovereignty of the Republic of Iraq and the Kurdistan Regional Government.

The Alliance of Political Parties of Iranian Kurdistan strongly condemns the ex*****on of Kurdish political activists Yaghoub Karimpour and Naser Bakrzadeh by the Islamic Republic of Iran.

These ex*****ons are part of a widening wave of ex*****ons targeting political and civil activists across Iran. As the regime in Tehran faces mounting political and strategic failures at home and abroad, it resorts to violence to mask its weakness.

The Islamic Republic answers every call for rights, freedom, and equality with arrests, torture, and the ex*****ons. Today, the entire political geography of Iran has been turned into a vast prison for those who dare to dissent.

Resorting to ex*****ons is a sign of the regime’s weakness, not its strength.

The Alliance calls on international human rights organizations and the conscience of the free world to break their silence and exert comprehensive pressure to stop this wave of ex*****ons.

PDKI leader Mustafa Hijri in a meeting with former Swedish Prime Minister and current leader of the Social Democratic Party, Magdalena Andersson.

Speaking to Voice of America, Kawa Bahrami, Head of the Central Command of Kurdistan’s Peshmerga Forces, underlined that the PDKI and the Peshmerga Forces have not been a party to the US-Iran war, but that the regime in Iran continues to target Kurdish civilians and Peshmerga Forces. “We will no longer accept these attacks,” he said. “We will respond by whatever means we deem appropriate.”

Bahrami also drew a clear distinction between the Kurdish struggle and the broader US-Iran confrontation, emphasising that the Kurdish cause is rooted in the national rights of the Kurdish people, independent of the interests of the United States or any other state.

The Alliance of Political Parties of Iranian Kurdistan emphasizes in a statement that appeasement with the Islamic Republic of Iran paves the way for further terrorism and instability.

The Alliance also condemns the Islamic Republic’s latest missile and drone attacks on PDKI bases and civilian residential camps in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, characterizing the strikes as acts of war terrorism and urging the United Nations, the Federal Government of Iraq, and the international community to respond.

The Alliance underlines that these attacks and the sacrifice of Kurdish forces do not weaken its resolve, they only deepen its conviction in the legitimacy of the struggle for the liberation of Kurdistan and the downfall of this regime.

The Alliance calls for an immediate end to the policy of appeasement with the Islamic Republic, stressing that the regime has consistently exploited diplomatic negotiations to buy time and advance its strategic objectives.

Yesterday Kurdistan lost two of its brave Peshmerga. Neda Miri and Samira Allayari in the mountains of Kurdistan.

The Kurdistan Peshmerga Force Command issued a statement Friday underscoring that legitimate defense is their fundamental right, following renewed Islamic Republic drone and missile attacks on PDKI civilian camps and Peshmerga units.

The statement came after Iranian strikes killed two Peshmergas and the son of a Peshmerga in the latest of a series of attacks that have now exceeded 118 missile and drone strikes against PDKI bases over the past six weeks.

The Peshmerga Command stated that the Islamic Republic’s continuous aggression have left the Peshmerga Forces with no choice but to assert its right to respond. The strikes, carried out even during an active ceasefire between Iran, the United States, and Israel, targeted not only Peshmerga forces but civilian families, schools, hospitals, and medical facilities.

The Peshmerga Command also sends its deepest condolences to the families and fellow fighters of the fallen Peshmerga, and all the people of Kurdistan. The statement also underlines that the Peshmerga Forces assure the people of Kurdistan that the Islamic Republic’s cowardly attacks only strengthen their resolve and that they should be confident in the will of the Peshmerga Forces. With the unwavering support of the Kurdish people, we will continue our struggle and continue the path of all our martyrs.

The Islamic Republic of Iran launched a new wave of missile and drone strikes yesterday targeting a civilian camps of the PDKI in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The attack resulted in a father and son being martyred and wounded. In that strike, Shahin Azarbarzin was martyred, while his father Nader Azarbarzin was critically wounded.

In a separate attack on a unit of the Peshmerga Forces in the mountains of Kurdistan, two female Peshmergas, Neda Miri and Samira Allayari, were martyred, and several other Peshmergas were wounded.

‎PDKI leader Mustafa Hijri delivered the following speech at the Global Progressive Mobilisation conference in Barcelona. At the event on 17–18 April, the Progressive Alliance brought together progressive leaders from across the globe- in dialogue, in solidarity, and in common purpose. Hijri participated as one of the key speakers during the “PA Global Connect” session, representing the Iranian Kurdish opposition:

‎Dear friends, dear comrades!

‎Thank you for this opportunity. It is an honor to stand before a gathering of progressives who understand that the struggle for democracy in one country is the struggle for democracy
‎everywhere.

‎I bring you greetings from the Kurds in Iran. A nation that has resisted dictatorship for nearly half a century, and who have been at the forefront of a struggle for democracy in
‎Iran.

‎Comrades,
‎The world speaks of Iran in the language of nuclear files and oil prices. It rarely speaks of the Kurds, the Baluch, the Arabs of Ahwaz, the women in Evin prison, the workers whose strikes are crushed, the torture, the ex*****ons, or the mass slaughter of peaceful protesters.

‎Iran is a torture prison for its citizens, and peace or stability for the region or the world is not possible without a democratic future. Recognizing this truth should be the priority of progressive forces all around the world.

‎With the Iran–US war reshaping the Middle East, the danger to our party and the Kurdish people has never been higher. We face threats not only from the regime in Iran, but also from its proxy groups in the region. Since late February, Iran has attacked our party close to 100 times with ballistic missiles and drones. The attacks against camps run by our party have been indiscriminate, targeting hospitals, schools, civilian homes, and water and electricity supplies.

‎In the middle of all this, our challenge is to place the future of all of Iran’s different nations at the Centre of the international conversation, before others decide our fate without us.

‎To do this, we must present an alternative to the regime. In February, together with other Kurdish political parties we founded the Alliance of Political Parties of Iranian Kurdistan. We are also engaging other political groups in the broader Iranian opposition.

‎This is done with the hope of building a democratic alternative worthy of the sacrifices of all the people in Iran who have been killed, imprisoned and tortured by this regime. This is our most important task, and you can all play an important role in this process.

‎We do not come asking for charity. We ask for solidarity, the kind that progressives once gave to the ANC in South Africa by doing these three things, concretely.

‎First, political recognition. Raise our voice in your parliaments, in the European Parliament and at the United Nations. Ask what about the Kurds? What about political prisoners? What about the ex*****ons? Do not engage in silent diplomacy with this regime, it only plays in the hands of the regime by giving it legitimacy.

‎Second، demand accountability for the cross-border attacks on Kurdish political refugees in Iraqi Kurdistan. These are war crimes against people under international protection. Your parties can move resolutions. Your government can impose costs.

‎Third, partnership. Invite us into your policy work on Iran, on the Middle East, on democratic transitions. Share expertise with our party and our younger members. Invite our experts on Iran related matters. Host our activists. Translate our voices. Treat the PDKI not as a distant cause, but as what we are, your sister party, a social-democratic party with a century-long tradition, fighting the same fight you are fighting, only on harder ground.

‎The Islamic Republic will fall. The only question is when and what rises in its place. Help us ensure that what rises is democratic, federal, pluralist, and not just, for Kurds, for all Iranians, and for the region.

‎Thank you!
‎Jin, Jyan, Azadi