Reports allege that Mustafa Hijri, Secretary General of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan is scheduled to meet with U.S. President Trump.

PDKI—the first Kurdish political party in modern history—is a founding member of the Kurdistan Coalition, which is in discussions with the US & Israel about how Kurdish forces, who have been fighting the Iranian regime since 1979, could help advance efforts to topple it.

PDKI’s history reflects the extraordinary price Kurdish political movements have paid, through executions, assassinations, & relentless repression, while confronting successive regimes in Tehran.

From its very founding, the cost was immediate. Its founding leader, Qazi Mohammed, who led the short-lived Republic of Mahabad, was executed in 1947 by Reza Shah Pahlavi.

Decades later, PDKI leadership was again targeted by the Iranian regime, this time in Europe. Secretary General Dr. Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou was assassinated in Vienna in 1989 by Iranian regime, who were never held accountable. 

His successor, Dr. Sadegh Sharafkandi, was assassinated in Berlin in 1992 in what became known as the “Mykonos restaurant assassinations.” German courts later concluded that the killings were ordered by the Iranian regime.

Source: [https://x.com/Samira\_Ghaderi/status/2030019063553085620](https://x.com/Samira_Ghaderi/status/2030019063553085620)