1967 Kurdish revolt in Iran

1967 Kurdish revolt in Iran
	Part of Iranian-Kurdish conflict
Date	1967–1968 (according to Entessar); 1966–1967 (according to UOA)
Location	Iranian Kurdistan
Result	Kurdish revolt suppressed: KDPI retreats into underground until 1979;
Belligerents
Imperial State of Iran SAVAK;	Revolutionary Committee leadership: Kurdish tribesmen; KDP-I;
Commanders and leaders
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi	Abd Allah Muini †; Sulayman Muini ; Mullah Aware †; Ismail Sharif Zadeh †; Qadir Sharif; Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou
Casualties and losses
50+	Eight leaders assassinated or executed; 40+ killed by KDP
	Total: 108 killed

The 1967 Kurdish revolt in Iran erupted in March 1967, as part of the long-running Iranian-Kurdish conflict. Abrahamian describes the revolt as a Marxist insurgency with the aim of establishing autonomy for Kurds in Iran, modeled as a federal republic. The revolt, consolidating several tribal uprisings which had begun in 1966, was inspired by the First Iraqi–Kurdish War in neighboring Iraq and enjoyed the support of the recovering Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran, previously crushed during the 1946 Iran crisis. The 1967 revolt, coordinated into a semi-organized campaign in the Mahabad-Urumiya region by the revived KDPI party, was entirely subdued by the central Iranian government.

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