Martyr Mustafa Rasul Mahmud Ismail was born in 1951 in the village of Marani, affiliated with the Choman district of Erbil Governorate. He was a villager and was engaged in village farming; he studied up to the primary level. He was married and had one daughter.
In the year 1969, he joined the Peshmerga Forces of the Aylul Revolution and in the Najmadin Goroni detachment, which was affiliated with the Balak Force of the Kurdistan Democratic Party he became a Peshmerga. In 1974, he was transferred to the Second Branch of the Fourth Battalion of the Balak Force, which at that time Majid Beg was the Head of Branch and Izzat Sulaiman Beg was the Battalion Commander. In 1974, he participated in the battles of Mount Korak, Garawi Omar Agha, and Mount Handren up to the village of Barsirin.
On February 15, 1974, after the defeat of the military attack of the then-regime of Iraq on the defensive position of the Peshmerga Forces in the village of Barsirin in the Balakayati region, the regime's aircraft heavily bombed the Peshmerga position. Mustafa Rasul was martyred, and his body was transferred by his comrades to the village of Maran, where they laid him to rest.
Source:Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.