The Komala Kurdistan's Organization of the

Communist Party of Iran The Communist Party of Iran (CPI; fa, حزب کمونیست ایران) is an Iranian communist party founded on 2 September 1983. It has an armed wing and its membership is predominantly Kurdish. The CPI is active throughout the industriali ...

( ku, ) is an

Iranian Iranian may refer to: * Iran, a sovereign state * Iranian peoples, the speakers of the Iranian languages. The term Iranic peoples is also used for this term to distinguish the pan ethnic term from Iranian, used for the people of Iran * Iranian lan ...

Kurdish

communist party A communist party is a political party that seeks to realize the socio-economic goals of communism. The term ''communist party'' was popularized by the title of ''The Manifesto of the Communist Party'' (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. ...

active throughout the

Iran–Iraq border The Iran–Iraq border runs for 1,599 km (994 mi) from the tripoint with Turkey in the north down to the Shatt al-Arab (known as Arvand Rud in Iran) waterway and out to the Persian Gulf in the south. Although the boundary was first deter ...

. The party is led by Ibrahim Alizade and works as the Kurdish branch of

. In 2009, a group of the party's cadre who identified only as socialists, left the party and established Socialist Faction of Komala.

Designation as a terrorist organization

The following countries have listed Komola as a

terrorist organization A number of national governments and two international organizations have created lists of organizations that they designate as terrorist. The following list of designated terrorist groups lists groups designated as terrorist by current and fo ...

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* 1984 establishments in Iran Banned Kurdish parties Banned communist parties Banned political parties in Iran Communism in Kurdistan Kurdish political parties in Iran Political parties established in 1984 Organisations designated as terrorist by Iran Organisations designated as terrorist by Japan Marxist parties in Iran Marxist parties in Iraq {{Iran-party-stub

Designation as a terrorist organization

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