Muslim Peshmerga
| Organization of Kurdish Muslim Peshmergas | |
|---|---|
| سازمان پیشمرگان کرد مسلمان ڕێکخراوی پێشمەرگەکانی کوردە موسڵمان | |
Ali Khamenei with the Muslim Peshmerga in 1980 | |
| Also known as | - Kurdish Frontier Knights - Protectors of the faith - Guardians of the prophet’s household - Kurdish loyalists - Shah Ismail brigade |
| Founding leader | Ruhollah Khomeini Ali Khamenei |
| Leaders | Mohammad Boroujerdi |
| Foundation | 1980 |
| Dissolved | 1985 |
| Country | Iran |
| Active regions | Iranian Kurdistan |
| Ideology | Iranian nationalism National conservatism Religious conservatism Shia Islamism Pan-Iranism Islamic fundamentalism Kurdish-Islamic synthesis Islamofascism Extremism Feyli interest Kurdish feudalism Anti-separatism Anti-communism Anti-Sunnism Antisemitism Anti-Bahà’ism Social conservatism Anti-Kurdish nationalism |
| Size | 60,000 100,000 (peak) |
| Allies | Iran Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps KDP |
| Opponents | Ba'athist Iraq Salvation Force Komala KDPI Khabat |
| Battles and wars | 1979 Kurdish rebellion in Iran Iran-Iraq war |
The Muslim Peshmerga, officially the Organization of Kurdish Muslim Peshmergas (Persian: سازمان پیشمرگان کرد مسلمان, romanized: Sâzmân-e Pešmargân-e Kord-e Musalmân; Kurdish: ڕێکخراوی پێشمەرگەکانی کوردە موسڵمان) was a violent Shia-Kurdish fundamentalist militia group founded by conservative Shia-Kurdish landlords, princes, tribal chiefs, clerics and merchants with the help of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps after the 1979 Kurdish revolts. The milita led by different warlords was responsible for violently suppressing the Sunni-Kurdish separatist uprising in western Iran, massacring tens of thousands of militant Sunni Kurds, communists, Baha’is and groups who consider to be enemies of the state.