Joint Statement of the Five Independence Movements of Eastern Kurdistan
Regarding the wave of public discontent in Tehran, Isfahan, Mashhad, Shiraz, Kermashan, Hamedan, Ahvaz, and other cities and regions within the fabricated geography known as Iran
We—as five political and independence movements of Eastern Kurdistan: “Kurdistan Independence Party, Party Sarbasti Kurdistan, Yarsani Organization Yari Kurd,
Kurdistan Revolutionary Union, Kurdistan Independence Movement”—with a broad, open, and close perspective, are following the events and protests of recent days in the fabricated and artificial geography known as Iran.
What is unfolding today in the form of strikes, gatherings, and protests by shopkeepers and students is not a passing incident; rather, it is a sign of Iran sinking deeper into the mire of a crisis that the ruling and occupying regime itself has created—a crisis that has emerged from years of organized corruption, systematic repression, occupation, the destruction of livelihoods, the deepening of poverty, widespread unemployment, suffocating inflation, and chronic incompetence in governance.
We defend the people’s natural and fundamental right to protest and to express their discontent. The street, the bazaar, and the university today are the public courtroom of a government that, for its survival, securitizes society—through threats and intimidation, through prison and arrest, through pressure on trade-union and civil institutions, and through the destructive policy of “control through fear.”
We explicitly, firmly, and without hesitation condemn any violence against protesters—from repression and arrests to threats and pressure on workers’ syndicates, students, and civil activists.
Nevertheless, for the Kurdish nation in Kurdistan under Iran’s occupation, the issue is not merely rising prices and an economic crisis. Here, the wound is not only the wound of bread; it is the wound of “denial”: the denial of national rights, the denial of identity and name and language, and the continuation of the occupation of land and homeland.
We regard today’s Iran as a fabricated and illegitimate structure, built upon the soil and blood of our nation through occupation, and one that—through violence, massacre, and coercion—has turned Kurdistan into a colony of Iranian colonialism.
The will and demand of the Kurdish nation is a national and historical demand: the right to self-determination.
In our view, this right finds meaning only through the realization of independence, political sovereignty, the establishment of a Kurdish national state, and the founding of the State of Kurdistan; and it is the Kurdish nation that must, by its own free will, determine its destiny.
The Kurdish nation in Eastern Kurdistan, in all periods, has decided and acted with vigilance and in reliance on field realities and its national interests. We respect this political understanding and believe that every public and collective action must be carried out on the basis of the free decision of the people and the field and social institutions of Kurdistan, and with a precise assessment of time, cost, consequences, and objectives. For this reason, we call on all forces and currents to organize themselves with awareness and civic discipline—both to safeguard the security of Kurdistan’s society and to seriously follow developments—in such a way that the greatest achievements are secured at the lowest cost, and that steps are taken only when the benefit and interest of our nation are guaranteed within them.
The timing and manner of each step are determined not by momentary emotion, but by the will, determination, and decision of the Kurdish nation in Kurdistan.
We emphasize the necessity of protecting the lives of our compatriots and defending the human dignity of the Kurdish nation. Our solidarity with protesters is solidarity grounded in rights, freedom, and justice—not an echo of imposed and centralist projects that the regime sometimes stages systematically and in a planned manner to reduce external pressure. Therefore, it is necessary for the Kurdish nation to decide on street mobilization when Tehran and the Persian-populated cities pour into the streets in the millions; because the Tehran bazaar and Farsestan have always been under the regime’s own control, and even during the Jina Revolution we witnessed their lack of position and silence. Nevertheless, it is not unlikely that a discontent engineered by the regime may ultimately slip beyond its control and become a factor of collapse.
In these sensitive and fast-moving circumstances, we call on all forces and political currents of Kurdistan to seriously resume efforts toward Kurdistan’s internal unity and the convergence of political forces, and to accelerate the formation of an alliance and the creation of a single, unified, decision-making and responsible center on the issue of Eastern Kurdistan; because fragmentation is the regime’s opportunity, and unity is the nation’s power.
Finally, we call on international institutions, human rights organizations, and global public opinion not to be passive observers. Repression, arrests, and the violation of people’s fundamental rights must be documented; and the political and legal cost of killings and crimes must fall upon the perpetrators and decision-makers of the Iranian regime. We urge the international community to intensify its pressure on the Iranian regime and to prevent the continuation of the lawlessness and crimes of this ruling power.
Kurdistan Independence Party
Party Sarbasti Kurdistan
Yarsani Organization Yari Kurd
Kurdistan Revolutionary Union
Kurdistan Independence Movement
10 Befranbar, Kurdish year 2725
31 December 2025
