Infighting Between Iranian Kurdish Groups Leaves At Least Two Dead

Clashes between two Kurdish parties in Iran left at least two dead and three wounded.

Following the collapse of the alliance between the Organization of the Toilers of Kurdistan and the Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan, an armed conflict occurred between their Peshmerga forces on Thursday morning, reported Hengaw Human Rights Organization.

The Komala Party announced on Wednesday that the efforts for an alliance have failed, and they will continue their activities independently.

Sources told Iran International the security forces of the Iraqi Kurdistan region entered their camps and ended the conflict.

In a tweet, Hengaw called on the two parties to "stop the military conflict and plan for an immediate mechanism to hold negotiations and end the disputes."

The human rights organization also expressed readiness "for any mediation to resolve disputes peacefully."

Rudaw Kurdish news agency reported the conflict took place in the Zargawez in the Kurdistan region of Iraq.

The Islamic Republic had previously called for the implementation of the security agreement with Iraq to prevent the activities of Iranian Kurdish parties in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

Komala has been engaged in guerrilla warfare against the Iranian government, notably during the 1979 Kurdish rebellion and the Iran–Iraq War.

The Organization of the Toilers of Kurdistan, also known as the Komala Reform Faction, is an armed communist and separatist ethnic party of Kurds in Iran based in northern Iraq. It split from the Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan in October 2007 over internal disagreements but reunited with them in November 2022.