Reason for holding the meeting

On February 11, 1979, after the uprising of the Iranian people, the Pashayati Regime in that country collapsed and the Islamic Republic took its place. The leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) was able to establish good relations with the new Iranian government. Since 1974, a large number of refugees from Southern Kurdistan had been in that country. Another sad event in early 1979 was the death of President Mustafa Barzani. After four years of exile, President Barzani passed away in the United States on March 1, 1979, and on April 4 of the same year, his body was returned to Iran and buried in the city of Shino in Eastern Kurdistan.

The situation that the changes in the region in general and the death of President Mustafa Barzani had had on the KDP organizations required a broad and urgent meeting. For this purpose, in early July 1979, the interim leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) held a broad meeting in the village of Shawane, north of the city of Shino in Eastern Kurdistan. Several important decisions were made at the meeting, the most important of which was the election of Masoud Barzani as interim leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) until the ninth congress and the election of Sami Abdulrahman as the party's secretary general. In addition, in order to normalize relations with the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran and continue relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran against the Iraqi regime, on the condition that the KDP did not want to interfere in the internal affairs of Iranian Kurdistan, Masoud Barzani requested at the meeting that the ninth congress be held as soon as possible by the summer or fall of 1979, but Sami Abdulrahman and another group believed that the congress should be held by the spring of 1979. 1980, until the new party program was fully implemented among the refugees and Party organizations in Iran, it was finally decided to hold the congress on the date proposed by Massoud Barzani.

As a result of the meeting, a preparatory committee was appointed for the ninth congress of the KDP, and the committees were as follows:

1. Ali Abdullah

2. Idris Barzani

3. Muhammad Mullah Qadir

4. Rashid Sindi

5. Arif Tayfur

6. Karim Shengali

7. Wirya Saati

Source:

1. Mohsin Dzeyî, The Stations of My Life, Chapter 3 and the End, (Hewlêr - Mukuriani Press - 2015).

2. Roznameh Kayhan, number 10751, Tehran, July 16, 1358, July 7, 1979.

3. Bamdad Calendar, issue 53, Tehran, 17th of July 1358, 8th of Tamuzah 1979.

4. Sami Abdulrahman, Hizb Al-Shayb Al-Dimqratî Al-Kurdistanî, Al-Bedîl Al-Sawrî in 1981. The Kurdish Revolutionary Movement, the Political Criticism, the Establishment, the Hizb Al-Shayb Al-Dimqratî Al-Kurdistanî, 26-30 July 1981.

6. Muhammed Mela Qadir, Workbook, A Brief History of the KDP and the Barzani Nemir, Third Edition, (Hewlêr- Aras Press- 2012).