WPNews.org. – West Papua joined rally (13/7/2025) for 36 anniversary of the assassination on July 13, 1989, the Iranian terrorists assassinated Dr. Abdul Rahman Ghassemlu, the Kurdish political leader and scholar in Vienna, Austria today in front of the Iranian colonial Embassy in London today.
He was a key leader in Kurdish struggle against Iranian state and his role stays noticeable until today
On the thirty sixth anniversary of the terror of the martyrs of Vien, Dr. Qasimlo and his friends, a memorial ceremony was held in London the capital of Britain before the embassy of the Islamic Republic and Austria Embassy in London .
This event on Sunday, 13th July 2025 , with the participation of hundreds of members and supporters of Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran, with the national anthem of A Raqib and holding a few moments of silence to honour the pure soul of martyrs with the presentation of Ms. Mina Swara.
Later, the message of the administrative committee of the Persian party was presented by the friend Kaiwan Sherzad, the head of the British department of the committee of Britain.
The text of that message in Kurdish language was presented by Dr. Kawa Mudarasi, the head of the party committee in Britain and then pay respect and salute with the slogans: Qasmlo Qasmlo, Qasmlo, the road is long by the crowds.
In part of the ceremony, the party anthem group performed the anthem of A martyrs and by their permission, they went to the embassy of Austria in London.
Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou Background
Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou was born on 22 December 1930 in the village of Ghassemlu in South Western Urmia, East Kurdistan to noble Kurdish family.
He was a Kurdish politician and Kurdish leader. Ghasemlou was the Secretary-General of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) from 1973 until his assassination in 1989 by agents of the coloniser Islamic Republic of Iran.
Born in Urmia of Rohjilat (East Kurdistan) to a walthy feudal family, his father was Mohammad Vesugh Ghassemlou, a landowning Kurdish nationalist Agha and Khan from the Kurdish Shikak tribe who was born in 1875.
His mother was Nana Jan Timsar, an Assyrian Christian. His father was an adviser to the Shah of Iran, who gave him the title “Wussug-e Divan.” He completed his early education in Urmia an the in Tehran. He witnessed the era of the Republic of Mahabad and became a co-founder member of the youth wing of KDP-I at the age 15. Ghassemlou moved to France to continue his studies at the Sorbonne. He met his wife Helen Krulich in Czechoslovakia. They had two daughters together, Mina (1953) and Hewa (1955).
Ghasemlou was fluent in 8 languages; Kurdish, Assyrian, Persian, Arabic, Azerbaijani, French, English, Czech, and Russian. He was also familiar with German, Slovak, and Polish.
Ghassemlou went back to Kurdistan in 1952 after completing his studies. He then spent several years as an active militant in the Kurdish military fields. In 1973, during the Third Congress of the PDKI, he was elected to the position of Secretary General of the party, a position of secretary general of the part, a position to which he was reelected several times until assassination.
in 1979, his party supported the revolution which ended in the fall of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi. Khomeini considered their last hour participation in the revolution as “opportunistic”. Kurds belonging to the party had overtaken the military compounds in the Kurdish areas.
Khomeini demanded all armed groups to become part of one revolutionary organisation and requested that Kurdish soldiers “return” their weapons. Ghassemlou demanded autonomy for Kurds and refused to lay down weapons. The party boycott the referendum for the new constitution. Following two bloody confrontation between Kurdish people and Persian forces loyal to Khomeini, the Kurdish struggle turned into a war. Shortly, after the beginning of the armed Kurdish rebellion, Ayatollah Khomeini declared a “holy war” against the PDKI and Kurdistan.
This was the start of confrontation of the party and the new state, which ended in a military defeat of Kurdish rebels. In 1982 Ghassemlou, attemted to overthrow the Shia clerics in an alliance due to ambitions for independence among the Kurds. The armed conflict continue up to 1984 in the middle of Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988) where both countries supported the armed rebels in each other’s territory.
After the defeat of the armed rebellion, Ghassemlou settled in Paris and joined the National Council of Resistance of Iran that was founded by the PDKI and other opposition forces: the Islamist-Marxist Peopes’s Mujahedin, the liberal-Leftist former president of Iran Abolhassan Bani Sad in October 1981.
“Kurdistan and Kurd” is a book on the history of Kurds and their alnd written by Ghassemlou and published in 1964 in Slovak, 1965 in English, 1967 in Arabic, 1969 in Polish, and 1973 in Kurdish.
In 1988, after the ar had ended, the Iran government decided to meet with him. Several meetings followed in Vienna, on 28 December, 30 December, and 20 January 1989. Another meeting was set up for 13 July, again in Vienna.
The Tehran delegation was as before, namely Mohammed Jafar Sahraroudi, and Hadji Moustafawi, except that this time there was also a third member: Amir Mansur Bozorgian who was a bodyguard.
source: PDKI and Kurdistani People’s
The Kurds also had a three-man delegation: Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou, his aide Abdullah Grader Azar (a member of the PDKI Central Committee), and Fadhil Rassoul, an Southern Kurdish University professor who had acted as a mediator.
The next day, 13 July 1989, in the very room where the negotiation took place, Ghassemlou was killed by the three bullets fired at very close range. His assistant Ghaderi Azar was hit by eleven bullets, and Rassoul by five. Hadji Moustafawi succeeded in escaping. Mohammad Jafar Sahraroudi received minor injuries, and was taken to a hospital, questioned, and allowed to go. Amir Mansur Bozorgian was released after 24 hours in police custody, and took refuge in the Iranian Embassy.
His deputy, Sadegh Sharafkandi, succeeded Ghassemlou as secretary-general until his assassination 17 September 1992 in the Mykonos restaurant in Berlin, Germany. Abdullah Ghader Azar, and Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou were buried on 20 July in Paris Pere Lachaise Cemetery.
source: PDKI and Kurdistani People’s