The Jafar Sultan revolt (Kurdish: شۆڕشی جەعفەر سوڵتان, Persian: شورش جعفر سلطان) refers to a Kurdish tribal revolt in Pahlavi Iran which erupted in the mountainous Hawraman region in 1931, and was one of the early tribal-nationalist Kurdish revolts against central Iranian rule during the early stage of Kurdish separatism in Iran.
Background
Jafar Sultan of Hawraman region took control of the area between Marivan and north of Halabja and remained independent until 1925. Jafar Sultan is seen as the ”head” of the royal sultan family (Lohoni, Lahoni) From 1927 to 1934 a number of Kurdish tribal uprisings erupted in the Hawraman and Marivan regions. In 1926 Iranian forces fighting Kurdish insurgents in the Pizhdar, Hawraman and Marivan areas executed all prisoners in an unprecedented act of brutality, likely among the factors that caused 31 Kurdish chieftains in the region to ask for British protection.
See also
- Timeline of Kurdish uprisings
- List of modern conflicts in the Middle East
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