Dated events associated with this case. Each event is a shared record: the same event appears identically wherever it is relevant.
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Qazi Muhammad founded the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan in Mahabad, which became the base of the Kurdish Republic of Mahabad the following year.
Significance here: The founding of the party that has led Kurdish nationalist politics in Iran for most of the period since.
· Declaration
A Kurdish republic proclaimed in Soviet-occupied north-western Iran collapsed within a year after Soviet withdrawal.
Significance here: The KDPI, founded the same year in Mahabad, emerged from and was shaped by the republic's brief existence and collapse.
· Other
Kurdish autonomy demands were rejected by the new Islamic Republic, leading to a war reported to have killed around 10,000 Iranian Kurds.
Significance here: Established the pattern of confrontation between Kurdish autonomy demands and the Islamic Republic that has persisted since.
· Other
The killing of the KDPI's Secretary-General during talks in Vienna triggered a renewed insurgency that lasted until 1996.
Significance here: Ended the prospect of a negotiated settlement between the KDPI and the Islamic Republic and triggered the 1989-1996 insurgency.
· Other
The death in custody of a young Kurdish Iranian woman triggered nationwide protests in which Kurdish areas played a prominent role, followed by Iranian strikes on Kurdish opposition groups in Iraq.
Significance here: The most significant recent episode of Kurdish involvement in broader Iranian protest politics, and the trigger for renewed Iranian military action against Iranian Kurdish groups based in Iraq.
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A rapidly evolving crisis saw Iranian Kurdish parties call for strikes, form a new political coalition, and reportedly clash with Iranian forces amid a wider war involving Iran, though many operational details remain contested and unverified.
Significance here: The most recent and, as of this bundle's preparation, still-unfolding chapter of Kurdish political mobilization in Iran.
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