Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran

Met yesterday Khalid Azizi of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran, see kdpi.org.uk/ku/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=140. The Party has divided into two under the leadership respectively of Secretary General Hassanzadeh and Secretary-General Hijri, but the differences are personal rather than ideological. Both stand for a federal Iran in which the Kurdish region would have a substantil degree of autonomy.