Reason:
On June 10, 1963, the regime launched another attack on Kurdistan and sent all its armed forces to the battlefield. The Kurdistan army opened many fronts to defend against the attacks and responded to the attacks. During this period, President Mustafa Barzani sent several letters to the KDP Political School, requesting Ibrahim Ahmed, the party secretary, and the political school to carry out several attacks on the army in their areas. However, the Political School, especially Ibrahim Ahmed, did not respond to their requests and did not allow the commanders to attack government forces without their consent. These behaviors led to a cooling of relations between President Mustafa Barzani and Ibrahim Ahmed.
On November 18, 1963, the Ba'ath government was overthrown by a military coup. After the coup, Abdulsalam Arif seized power and directly called on the revolutionary leadership to negotiate,
In December 1963, after President Barzani's consultation with the political school, negotiations began and the governor of Sulaymaniyah, Colonel Abdulrezaq Mahmoud, came to Rania as a government representative and met with President Mustafa Barzani, Jalal Talabani, and Nouri Shawes Members of the Political School met and an agreement was reached between the two sides in the negotiations. On February 10, 1964, the government issued a statement of agreement, stating that "the state recognizes the national rights of the Kurds."
On February 17, 1964, Ibrahim Ahmed, Seyid Aziz Shamzini, and Omar Mustafa Dabbaba came to Sangesar and met with President Barzani, and the result of the meeting was the agreement of all parties on the February 10 agreement. After a week in Sangasar, Ibrahim Ahmed and his friends returned to Mawet and resumed their opposition there. This led to a large number of commanders and Peshmerga fighters leaving Mawet and going to President Barzani in Sangasar to explain the plan of the Political School to President Barzani. After the arrival of the Peshmerga commanders, President Barzani held a meeting with them and after consultations, he decided to dismiss all commanders who had followed the Political School and replace them with other commanders who were trustworthy. The commanders who were dismissed were Jalal Talabani, Omar Mustafa Debabe, Ali Askari, and Kamal Mufti. In response, Ibrahim Ahmed and the Political School held the Mawet conference on April 9.
Conference organization:
From April 4 to April 9, 1964, the conference began at the primary school in the village of Mawet. Initially, it was decided that the conference would be held on April 1, 1964 in the village of Malome, but it was later moved to Mawet because the Political School had told the invited representatives in its letter that a conference would be held on April 1, but it was held three days later. The report of the Political School was read by Ibrahim Ahmed, and from all the members of the Central Committee, ten members and officials from the first division of Mosul, the second division of Hewlêr, the third division of Kirkuk, the fourth division of Sulaymaniyah and the fifth division of Baghdad were present at the meeting. The meeting was chaired by Nouri Shawes, Ali Abdullah, Seyid Aziz Shamzini and Ibrahim Ahmed, Jalal Talabani, Omar Mustafa, Salih Yusfi, Abdul Hussein Fayli, Hashim Akreyi and Nahide Sheikh Salam Ahmed did not attend the conference for various reasons. Colonel Isa Pejman, a representative of the Iranian intelligence agency SAVAK, was in Mawet at the time of the conference.
Ibrahim Ahmed Fatah's main goal at the Mawet meeting was to oppose Mustafa Barzani and remove him from the leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). At the same conference, a delegation was formed to meet between the Political School and President Mustafa Barzani. For this purpose, the delegation went to President Barzani and it was decided that the conference would not end until the delegation returned. The delegation reached a common conclusion with President Barzani and returned to Mawet. When the delegation returned, the conference had ended and the Political School had issued a statement against President Barzani entitled ((Is the Barzani-Mushir Agreement Peace or Surrender?), according to the work program and objectives set, on the last day of the meeting, a decision was made to suspend President Mustafa Barzani's work.
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