Kurdish Revolutionary Hezbollah

Not to be confused with Kurdish Hezbollah.

The Kurdish Revolutionary Hezbollah (Kurdish: حیزبوڵڵای شۆڕشگێڕی کوردی) was a splinter group of the Kurdish Hezbollah of Iran and apart of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq. The Kurdish Revolutionary Hezbollah established 1988 in South Kurdistan under the leadership of Adham Barzani, a cousin of Massoud Barzani.[1][2][3]

Kurdish Revolutionary Hezbollah

حیزبوڵڵای شۆڕشگێڕی کوردی
Leaders| Adham Barzani
Dates of operation| 1988-2004
Group(s)| Barzani and Feyli
Headquarters| Karaj, Iran
Ideology| Islamism
Shiism
Pro-Iran
Kurdish nationalism
Size| 16,000
Part of| Kurdish mujahideen & Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq
Allies|  Iran
Iraqi Kurdistan
Hezbollah
Opponents|  Ba'athist Iraq
USA
Turkey
Israel

The group adopted Shia elements and got supported by Iran both financially and military. The groups goal was to establish an shia Islamic state in Kurdistan. Iran funded many shia institutions and schools all over Iraqi Kurdistan with hope to drive sunni Kurds to abandon their school of thought and accept Shia Islam. The group was dissolved in 2004.[4]

## References[edit]

1. ^ Kurdistan Revolutionary Hizballah Retrieved 2017-08-16.
2. ^ "Iraqi Political Groups". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Archived from the original on 2007-03-14. Retrieved 2007-03-29.
3. ^ "Tracking Iranian Soft Power Influence in the KRI | The Washington Institute". www.washingtoninstitute.org. Retrieved 2024-01-16.
4. ^ "Tracking Iranian Soft Power Influence in the KRI | The Washington Institute". www.washingtoninstitute.org. Retrieved 2024-01-16.

* Kurdish Revolutionary Hizbollah at globalsecurity.org
* Iraqi Opposition at globalsecurity.org
* The Middle East and North Africa. Routledge 2003, ISBN 1-85743-184-7, p. 515 (online copy, p. 515, at Google Books)