Officer and politician Murad Aziz, known as Dr. Murad, Captain Murad Razm-Avar, Major Murad Razm-Avar, and Murad Rahbari, was one of the officers of the Iranian army in the city of Urmia in 1941, and had secret ties with the officers of the Tudeh Party of Iran, in the Fourth Congress 1959 and the Fifth Congress 1960 he was elected as a member of the Central Committee and a member of the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Iraq, in 1974 he openly stood against the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Aylul Revolution and cooperated with the Iraqi Ba'ath Party.

Biography‌

Murad Aziz was born in 1918 in the city of Kermanshah and belonged to the Laki tribe of the Feyli Kurds of Eastern Kurdistan. In 1949, he was admitted to the Department of Political Sciences at Baku University. In 1953, he was admitted to Moscow University for his doctoral studies and received his doctorate in Oriental Studies in 1957. He passed away on April 10, 1980, in the city of Las Palmas, Spain, due to heart failure and was buried in Brookwood Cemetery in London, United Kingdom. He was proficient in Kurdish, Persian, Russian, Turkish, Arabic, French, and English.

Struggle Record

In 1941, Murad Aziz joined the ranks of the secret society of officers of the Tudeh Party of Iran. In 1945, he held the rank of Captain (Naqib) in the artillery of the Iranian army and was active in the secret military organization of the Tudeh Party of Iran. In 1946, near the city of Qazvin, he fled from the hands of the Iranian army intelligence agents to the Soviet Union and settled in Baku, the capital of the Republic of Azerbaijan, and was later sent by them to Tabriz to form the National Army of Azerbaijan. In 1947, after the collapse of the Azerbaijan National Republic, he headed to the Soviet Union.

In 1957, Jalal Talabani (1933-2017) met him in Moscow and brought him to General Mustafa Barzani (1903-1979), and in 1959, along with Barzani's companions, he arrived at the port of Basra in southern Iraq on the ship Grozia, and was issued an Iraqi identity card as a Barzani by President Mustafa Barzani.

In 1959, he was appointed as the head of the preparatory committee for the Fourth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party- Iraq, and in the congress, he was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party- Iraq, and in the first meeting of the Central Committee, he was elected as a member of the Political Bureau. In 1960, at the Fifth Congress he was re-elected as a member of the Central Committee and then the Political Bureau.

After the coup of February 8, 1963, he left the city of Baghdad and headed to Moscow, and in 1968 he returned to the city of Baghdad. In 1969, with the cooperation and support of the Ba'ath Party authorities and the Intelligence Agency (KGB) of the Soviet Union, he contacted General Teymur Bakhtiar and, under the pseudonym (Rahbari), engaged in activities against the rule of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, and in the same year, he worked with the Iraqi army at the port of Basra as a military advisor to introduce Russian weapons.

In 1969, at the request of Saddam Hussein, the Vice President of Iraq, he assisted other officers of the Iranian Tudeh Party for General Teymur Bakhtiar's project, and in 1970, he accompanied Saddam Hussein (1937-2006) to the village of Nawprdan in Erbil Governorate for the purpose of negotiations between the Iraqi government authorities and the leadership of the Aylul Revolution.

In 1974, he openly stood against the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Aylul Revolution and cooperated with the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party. On April 10, 1980, he passed away in the city of Las Palmas, Spain, due to heart failure and was buried in Brookwood Cemetery in London, United Kingdom.

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