1979 Kurdish rebellion in Iran
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 102 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5142-4660-1
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! 1979 Kurdish rebellion in Iran erupted in April 1979, some two months after the completion of the Iranian Revolution, and became the largest among the nation-wide uprisings in Iran against the new regime. While at first, Kurdish militants, primarily of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan, made some territorial gains in the area of Mahabad and ousted the Iranian troops from the region, a large scale offensive in spring 1980 by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard reversed the course of the rebellion. Following the eruption of Iran-Iraq War, in September 1980, an even greater effort was made by the Iranian regime to crush the Kurdish rebellion, which was the only one of the 1979 uprisings to still go on (Arab, Baluchi and Turkmen uprisings had already been subdued by that time). By late 1980, the Iranian regular forces and the Revolutionary Guard ousted the Kurdish rebels from their strongholds, but pockets of Kurdish rebels kept executing...