Iraqi Kurdistan opposition parties, namely the Kurdistan Democratic Party (PDK), and the Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan have decided to freeze all armed activities against the Iranian forces on the account of geopolitics and with an aim to leave no vantage point to justify Tehran regime aggression. Since its establishment in 1992, the Kurdistan Regional Government faced an Iran aiming to undermine all Kurdish entities across the region. Nevertheless, ruling parties in the Kurdistan region continued providing financial assistance to the two anti-Iran parties. Komala has posts based in mountainous terrain north of Sulaymaniyah, and the KDPI is based in the city of Koy Sanjaq, Erbil Governorate. Over the course of time, the ranks of each of the parties split. Opposed to the KDPI, which is led by Mustafa Hijri, the PDK is led by Mostafa Mouloudi. The PDK is a split branch of KDPI which, unlike the original group, had not resumed armed struggle. Both parties’ conflicting strategies in dealing with Iranian threat drew them apart. KDPI emphasizes that Iran has a long history of having hanged and assassinated PDK leaders and negotiations would prove futile. On the other hand, Komala split into three wings. For more than 15 years, all Kurdish parties upheld armistice until the PDK announced resuming armed activity two years ago on Iranian territory. PDK forces conducted painful blows to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard concentrations and camps which infest Kurdish areas inside Iran. Iranians have not been shy in carrying out assassinations of cadres, leaders and fighters of the Kurdish minority party—sometimes operating transgressions within Iraqi Kurdistan territory. Komala, until this very day, maintains a military silence, despite having a significant number of trained and armed fighters with medium and light weapons at their disposal. Association for Human Rights in Kurdistan of Iran (KMMK) official and Komala offshoot leader Omar Alikhanzadeh said that his party resumed armed activity against Iran from 2009 until late 2013, but found it “a futile and useless when compared to political and civil action.” “We are now adopting a large-scale political project aimed at mobilizing masses politically and offering wider prospects for anti-Iranian political action,”Alikhanzadeh told Asharq Al-Awsat. Working to form an entity which has both military and political wings operating inside Iranian territory, Alikhanzadeh says that the KMMK plans further training and rehabilitation of military forces in border areas. Despite employing charged rhetoric, Alikhanzadeh said that the time for direct confrontation with the Iranian regime has not yet come. Alikhanzadeh elaborated further by saying that Komala-linked fighters lack an elemental strategic depth, proper logistics, and financial support. Over more, Alikhanzadeh said that Kurdish opposition members have also suffered pressure practiced by the Iraqi Kurdistan government, which has cut off all funding to opposition parties. Speaking on toppling the Iranian regime, the KMMK official said it has to be a public choice taken and carried out by Iranians with no external drivers. “Iran’s dictatorship collapsing is inevitable. The Iranian public is in disagreement with the regime structure, especially over its blatant involvement in spurring regional distress, not internal factors such as the deteriorating living standards for Iranians.” Summing up recent riots in Iran, Alikhanzadeh said that the regime’s shortcoming has instigated an unprecedented wave of rejection and discontent against the rulers of Tehran. As for the prospects of rapprochement between conflicting Komala offshoots Alikhanzadeh said that there is hope. “We recently formed a center for joint cooperation between all the opposing Kurdish forces and parties. We outlined joint efforts, especially on working together to topple the current Tehran regime and replace it with a democratic alternative instead.”