Politician Idris Mustafa Sheikh Muhammad Sheikh Abdul-Salam Barzani, known as Idris Barzani and the Architect of Peace, joined the ranks of the Peshmerga Forces of the Aylul Revolution in the Year 1961, was the secretary to President Mela Mustafa Barzani in the Year 1962, was the head of the military office in the executive bureau and a member of the foreign relations committee of the executive bureau of the Revolutionary Command Council in Iraqi Kurdistan in 1966, and in May of the same year, he became the first head of the Barzani headquarters in the Aylul Revolution and supervised the command of the Handren Battle against the Iraqi army, was in charge of the military office of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Year 1970, was elected as a member of the central committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the same year at the 8th Congress, was one of the founders of the provisional leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Year 1975, and played a significant role in the Year 1976 in initiating the Gulan Revolution and sending the Peshmerga back to Kurdistan and providing logistical support to the Peshmerga, and in the 9th Congress he was elected as a member of the central committee and then the political bureau and head of relations of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

Biography

Idris Mustafa Sheikh Muhammad Sheikh Abdul-Salam Barzani was born on March 14, 1944, in the village of Barzan, from the family of the sheikhs of the Barzan Tekyeh and is the son of President Mustafa Barzani (1903-1979). In the Year 1945, after the collapse of the second Barzan revolution, at a time when he was less than two years old, he retreated with the family of revolutionaries towards the village of Kele in the Piran region and the Barazgir plain, and together with most of the people of the Barzan region, on October 11 of the same year, they went through Kile Shin and Dalamper towards Eastern Kurdistan. In 1947, after the collapse of the Republic of Kurdistan, he returned to Southern Kurdistan with his uncle Sheikh Ahmed Barzani (1892-1969).

During the period between the years (1947-1958), he lived with his family in exile in the cities of Basra, Mosul, and Baghdad. In 1952, despite the hardship of his family's life in displacement and in the prisons of the Iraqi government, he was sent to study in the city of Basra and continued until 1954. In the same year, the government moved his family to the city of Mosul, where he continued his studies. In 1956, the government moved them again to the city of Baghdad. This unstable situation that his family experienced did not affect the continuity of Idris Barzani 's education, but he continued until he finished primary school and then continued his secondary education in the city of Baghdad, and at the same time, he studied religious studies.

After twelve years of being deprived of his father's affection, he reunited with his father in 1958. In the Year 1964, he married Nazdar Khan, the daughter of Hama Agha Rahman. He was proficient in Kurdish, Arabic, Persian, and English.

Struggle Record

Idris Mustafa Barzani joined the ranks of the Peshmerga Forces of the Aylul Revolution in the Year 1961, was the secretary to President Mela Mustafa Barzani in the Year 1962, participated in the broad meeting in Koya in 1963, and in the Year 1964, he participated as a guest in the 6th Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the town of Qaladize. In 1966, he was the head of the military office in the executive bureau and a member of the foreign relations committee of the executive bureau of the Revolutionary Command Council in Iraqi Kurdistan. In early May 1966, he supervised the command of the Handren Battle  against the Iraqi army. In the same year, he became a representative of the 7th Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In May of that year, he was appointed as the first head of the Barzani headquarters in the Aylul Revolution. In 1966, in the Balakayati region, he welcomed the negotiating delegation of the Iraqi government for peace, and a year later, with a delegation of the Kurdistan Democratic Party , he met with Lieutenant General Abdul Rahman Muhammad Arif (1916-2007), the President of Iraq, at the Green Palace in the city of Baghdad. In March 1967, in the town of Galala, accompanied by President Mustafa Barzani, he welcomed Rajab Abdul Majid, the Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq, who had come to resolve the problems between the two sides.

In the Year 1969, he supervised the Halaj-Daban al-Kabir battle against the forces of the Ibrahim Ahmad – Jalal Talabani group in the Garmian region. In the same year, under the command of President Mustafa Barzani , he stopped the advance of the Iraqi army in the Ranya – Sarkapkan front.

Idris Barzani was subjected to assassination attempts and imprisonment several times in his life. On December 6, 1970, in the city of Baghdad, his car was sprayed with bullets by Ba'ath Party spies, but he was not in the car and survived. Once again, in early June 1972, an attempt was made to assassinate him, his father, and his brother Masoud Barzani by detonating TNT material, but the attempt was discovered and thwarted before it could be carried out. In the Year 1978, he was imprisoned for a short time by the Iranian SAVAK agency due to political activities and was interrogated.

On January 10, 1970, he was a member of the nine-member delegation of the Kurdistan Democratic Party to negotiate autonomy for Southern Kurdistan with Ba'ath Party officials in the city of Baghdad and participated in the delegation that signed the March 11 Agreement with the Iraqi government, and was later proposed by the Ba'ath Party for the position of Vice President of Iraq, but President Mustafa Barzani did not agree to this.

In the Year 1970, at the 8th Congress he was elected as a member of the central committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. From November 27 to 29, 1973, he participated in the political-military conference in Choman.

On March 8, 1974, in the city of Baghdad, he conducted the final round of negotiations before the Iraqi army's attack on the liberated areas of the Aylul Revolution with Saddam Hussein (1937-2006) and proposed postponing the unilateral declaration of the Kurdistan Autonomous Region law for another year to allow more room for negotiations, but the other side rejected it.

 On January 4, 1975, he was appointed as a member of the military planning committee of the Aylul Revolution and participated in the March 8 meeting in Haji Omaran with the aim of continuing the resistance against the Algiers Agreement between the two countries of Iran and Iraq, which was intended to besiege the Aylul Revolution, and in the meeting, he voted "yes" for the continuation of the revolution.

In 1975, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution he became a refugee in the country of Iran and took charge of the affairs of the refugees in that country. In 1976, at the Berlin Conference he was appointed as a member of the Political Bureau of the Provisional Leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

In 1976, he played a significant role in initiating the Gulan Revolution and sending Peshmerga back to Kurdistan and provided logistical support for the Peshmerga. In mid-1977, under his supervision, the large Karaj meeting was organized with the aim of supporting the Provisional Leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and overseeing the one hundred and fifty thousand refugees of Southern Kurdistan in the country of Iran.

On March 5, 1979, at the grave of Mustafa Barzani in the town of Oshnavieh, in the presence of one hundred thousand people, he delivered a speech on behalf of the Barzani family. That same year, he was a member of the preparatory committee for the 9th Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and in that congress, he was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and later, in the first meeting of the Central Committee, he was elected as a member of the Political Bureau and head of relations.

From September 1981 to the spring of 1982, he supervised the forces of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Southern Kurdistan, and his headquarters was in the Barazgir Plain on the border of Erbil Governorate. In 1983, he was elected as a member of the military leadership committee of the forces of the Jowed Front. In 1983, in the city of Damascus, he signed a joint cooperation agreement with Abdullah Öcalan.

On November 8, 1986, leading a delegation of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the city of Tehran, the capital of the Islamic Republic of Iran, he signed a peace agreement with Jalal Talabani (1933-2017), the Secretary-General of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan.

He was the architect of reconciliation between the political forces of Kurdistan and played a key role in establishing the Kurdistan Front, which was later established in May 1988.

 On January 31, 1987, at his private headquarters in the village of Silivana in Eastern Kurdistan, he passed away due to heart failure and was buried in the Helej cemetery in Eastern Kurdistan, next to the grave of Mustafa Barzani .

On October 6, 1993, the procession of the remains of Idris Barzani and his father Mustafa Barzani were brought by two helicopters of the Air Force of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Bashmakh border crossing on the border of Sulaymaniyah Governorate and were welcomed by Jalal Talabani and Nechirvan Barzani and other leaders of the Kurdish liberation movement and an uncountable crowd. On October 8, after two days of the procession of the immortals passing through the villages, towns, and cities of Kurdistan, they were finally buried in the village of Barzan in the presence of a large crowd and many leaders.

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