The Alliance of Iranian Kurdistan Political Parties has released a statement following its meeting on Thursday, July 23, 2026, assessing the latest political, security, and geopolitical developments in Iran, Iranian Kurdistan, and the wider region. The alliance stressed that, under the current circumstances, unity among Kurdish political parties is not a choice but a strategic necessity for addressing the challenges ahead.

According to the statement, the Islamic Republic of Iran, facing growing domestic crises, political deadlock on the international stage, and the collapse of negotiations with the United States, has increasingly relied on missile, drone, and ground attacks against Iranian Kurdish political parties, while also intensifying military and security operations.

The alliance strongly condemned Iran's missile, drone, and ground attacks on the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and the headquarters of Iranian Kurdish political parties. It stated that, based on the condition of some of the wounded, there are indications that incendiary weapons or white phosphorus may have been used during the attacks. If confirmed, the statement said, such actions could amount to a crime against humanity.

The statement also referred to the recent casualties, saying that several Peshmerga fighters from the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK), the Komala party of Iranian Kurdistan (Komala), the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI), and several guerrillas of the East Kurdistan Units (YRK) were killed, while many other members of these organizations were wounded.

Paying tribute to those who lost their lives and expressing condolences to their families and comrades, the alliance described these losses as a tragedy for the entire Kurdish movement. It emphasized that strengthening internal unity, preserving cohesion among its member parties, and expanding international engagement and diplomatic efforts are among its highest priorities.

The statement also called on the international community to pay greater attention to the human rights situation in Kurdistan and to document the Islamic Republic's attacks. It stressed that the international community should not remain silent and should support the legitimate national, political, and fundamental rights of the Kurdish people.

In conclusion, the Alliance of Iranian Kurdistan Political Parties announced that political and field coordination among its member parties will continue with greater unity and determination. It reaffirmed that their joint struggle will continue until the end of the Islamic Republic's rule and the realization of the Kurdish people's national and political rights in Iranian Kurdistan.

https://x.com/RojhelatInfo_En/status/2080674317453480290

Sûheyla Qasimlo, xwişka rêberê Kurd Dr. Ebdurehman Qasimlo, di sala 1983'an de li Rojhilatê Kurdistanê.

A little girl in eastern Kurdistan - the city of Sardasht 1983

Iran Strikes Kurdish Opposition Seven Times, Killing Nine and Wounding 12

Since US-Iran hostilities re-escalated around July 11th, Iran has carried out at least seven attacks on Iranian Kurdish opposition groups in the Kurdistan Region, killing nine fighters and wounding at least 12 others, at least five of them seriously.

The attacks included:

1. 17 July: A missile barrage on a Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan camp at Zargwezle, south of Suleimani, killing nine fighters.
2. 17 July: A separate missile strike on a Komala of the Toilers camp at Surdash.
3. 17 July: A reported drone strike on a PDKI camp at Zawiya Spi, near Koya.
4. 19 July: An explosive-drone strike on a PAK base at Chemshar, near Darashakran, wounding eight fighters, four of them seriously.
5. 20 July: A missile strike on a Komala of the Toilers position in the Alana Valley, near Khalifan.
6. 20 July: A drone strike on the group’s camp at Surdash.
7. 20 July: A separate drone strike on its position in the Jasana area.

Since the war began on 28 February, at least 19 Iranian Kurdish fighters have been killed in Iranian attacks, while the groups’ bases and positions in the Kurdistan Region have been targeted by hundreds of missiles and drones.

https://thenationalcontext.com/portal/iran-strikes-kurdish-opposition-seven-times/

With more Iranian Kurdish casualties reported over the last two weeks, this map has been updated, and the expanded sample confirms the pattern: a narrow social base for Iran's exiled Kurdish parties:

The pool of fighters whose birthplace we know is now considerably larger: around 30 killed since the US-Iran war began, and over 70 once those reported killed between 2016 and February 2026 are included. The map also charts the birthplaces of these parties' leaderships.

That record is analytically useful for reasons often left unstated. Fighters do not emerge from nowhere. They come through families, friendship networks, kinship ties and town-level political milieus. When a party repeatedly loses people from the same handful of places, it is not simply losing individuals. It is revealing where it has roots, where it recruits, where it is trusted, and where it can expect to find the relationships an internal-linkage strategy actually requires.

The analytical weight of the recent casualty layer rests on one further property, and it is the decisive one: of the available samples, it is the least controllable by the parties themselves. What we have, in effect, is a quasi-random casualty sample drawn from fighters and members of these organisations killed in Iraqi Kurdistan, above all in missile, drone, camp or exposure-related incidents in which those killed were not selected for their hometown or local background but targeted simply for belonging to Iranian Kurdish party structures.

That matters because it makes the dead one of the best available proxies for the movements' underlying social base. The sample was produced by Iranian targeting, not party curation. It therefore reflects where these movements actually have people embedded, rather than where they would prefer to appear present.

This is precisely where such a proxy is needed, because reliable answers about embeddedness are hard to obtain. No party publishes usable membership data, serious fieldwork inside Iran is impossible under current conditions, and there is no publicly available polling of Iranian Kurds. What does exist, particularly after the recent wave of strikes and operations against party sites in Iraq's Kurdistan Region, is a casualty record.

https://x.com/NatlContext/status/2078085127234560315

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/mossad-plan-envisioned-kurds-reaching-tehran-with-ahmadinejad-taking-control-report/

>Channel 13 reveals new details of the aborted Mossad plan to topple the Iranian regime earlier this year, which the spy agency called “Puss in Boots.”

>The plan envisioned Israeli strikes on Revolutionary Guard Corps positions along Iran’s border with Iraq, in Iranian Kurdistan.

>The strikes were designed to open the door for Kurdish fighters to cross into Iran, according to the report, and push into Kurdish cities in the country’s northwest.

>The Mossad expected thousands of young Kurds to join the fighters, turning into a mass movement that could reach Tehran itself. Once that happened, it was thought that a mass protest movement with millions of demonstrators would bring down the regime, according to the report.

>The Kurdish offensive was one of the key elements of the plan, which also would see former hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ultimately take control of the country.

>The New York Times reported yesterday that Israel engaged in a multi-year effort to recruit and re-install Ahmadinejad, in a campaign that included a meeting with then-Mossad chief David Barnea on the sidelines of an academic conference in Hungary.

>At the beginning of the war, Israel and the US did carry out heavy strikes against Iranian security forces – including regime officials, army bases, missile systems, police stations and Basij sites – in the country’s northwest in an effort to ease the Kurds’ path, but leaks to the media, lobbying by Turkey, and wariness among the Kurds themselves led Washington to pull the plug on the idea.

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Inside Israel’s Secret Operation to Cultivate Ahmadinejad

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/us/politics/israel-mahmoud-ahmadinejad-iran.html

>Israeli officials have not commented publicly about the plan to install Mr. Ahmadinejad as Iran’s leader, which was part of a broader attempt to topple the government in Tehran. Another element involved arming and training Iranian Kurdish opposition forces based in northern Iraq to cross into western Iran, hold territory there and eventually move toward the capital Tehran, an effort that never manifested.

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Channel 13 auto translated:

https://13tv.co.il/item/news/politics/security/rdvq5-905263137/

With the Kurds and "Friend" Ahmadinejad: The Operation to Overthrow the Regime Revealed

>In Israel, the former Iranian president was codenamed "The Friend," and in the Mossad, thousands of Kurdish fighters were trained in the country to be brought into Iran - which was supposed to ignite a wave of protests by millions and bring about the overthrow of the regime. 3 days after the move was launched - Trump stopped it: "We got a Don't." Operation "Puss in Boots," new details
At the end of June 2025, with the end of Operation "With the Dog," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that "We are done with Iran for generations." However, behind the scenes, an ambitious plan to overthrow the Iranian regime began to take shape in the Mossad , which was codenamed "Puss in Boots." The then-head of the Mossad, David Barnea, pushed the plan and made it clear to the political echelons that it was an achievable goal. The figure designated as the future leader was former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who was nicknamed "the friend" in closed talks.
The plan, parts of which were published today (Monday) in the New York Times, included a large-scale air force attack in the Kurdish region to open an entry route for Kurdish forces into Iranian territory, with the assessment that initial success would ignite a wave of protests by millions. As part of the preparations, thousands of Kurdish fighters arrived in Israel, practiced operational scenarios and were briefed that harming civilians would lead to the cessation of Israeli aid.
In January 2026, the possibility of bringing the operation forward arose following huge protests in Iran, but Israel requested a postponement out of concern that the forces were not prepared. During their meeting at the White House in February, President Donald Trump asked Netanyahu: “When do you want it? When will you be ready?” Barnea estimated that overthrowing the regime would take about a year, and Zamir estimated that it could take up to three years. Ultimately, Trump gave the green light, and Israel went on the offensive.
But a few days later, there was a turnaround: a message from the White House ordered the Kurds to stop entering - and an Israeli official said: "Three days after the start of the campaign, we received a 'Don't'." In Jerusalem, the change was attributed to the opposition of Turkish President Erdogan and pressure from Vice President J. D. Vance.
Attempts by the political echelon and the Mossad to change the decision failed. Barnea presented an alternative plan, but sources in the defense establishment point out that it was inferior to the original plan. The alternative plan failed, and today some define the attempt to build it during the war as a mistake, since it did not reach the level of maturity of the original plan and did not produce the hoped-for results.
Let us recall that about two months ago, the New York Times reported that Israel and the US were allegedly exploring the possibility of promoting regime change in Tehran - and even saw Ahmadinejad as a possible candidate for new leadership, despite his anti-Israeli and anti-American past. According to American sources briefed on the matter, an Israeli attack on his home in Tehran on the first day of the war was intended to free Ahmadinejad from house arrest, but he was injured, became disappointed with the plan and has since disappeared from the public eye.
Now, according to the New York Times, as part of the plan, in early 2024, a senior Hungarian government official approached the rector of the "Ludovica" University in Budapest, Prof. Gergely Daly, with an unusual request: to invite Ahmadinejad to a climate conference. According to the report, the conference served as a cover for secret meetings between Ahmadinejad and Israeli intelligence officials. After the latter confirmed his participation. Iranian officials noted that suspicions about Ahmadinejad arose as early as 2017, following open letters he sent to President Trump.
The climax of the operation occurred at the end of February of this year, in the early days of the war between the US and Israel and Iran: After an Israeli airstrike that hit the compound where Ahmadinejad was staying in Tehran, the former president was rescued by Mossad agents who drove him in a getaway car to a hideout. However, the operation failed. Ahmadinejad, according to four sources who spoke to The New York Times, expressed disappointment with the operation and expressed reservations about the Israeli plan.
After disappearing for several months, Ahmadinejad appeared last Monday at Ali Khamenei's funeral. However, according to senior officials in Tehran, he was subsequently placed under house arrest and placed under the supervision of the Revolutionary Guards.

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Puss in Boots: The Mossad's Planned Operation to Overthrow the Iranian Regime

https://www.agenzianova.com/en/news/Puss-in-Boots--an-operation-by-which-Mossad-planned-to-overthrow-the-Iranian-regime/