Rare Photos of Dr. Abdul-Rahman Ghassemlou

In 1979 his party supported the revolution in Iran to end the reign of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi but the party boycotted the referendum for the new constitution. This gave rise to tensions between the Kurdish parties and the new regime. A Kurdish armed rebellion began and Ayatollah Khomeini declared a holy war against Kurdistan. Thousands of executions and massacres of Kurds in East Kurdistan began continuing right up until today, were we are seeing mass executions of ‘political prisoners’.