Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK) confirms assassination of its member in Erbil, attributes killing to Iranian security agencies

Hengaw – Friday, July 3, 2026

The Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK) has officially confirmed the assassination of one of its member and Peshmerga, Soran Mohammadzadeh, a Kurdish man from Mahabad, in Erbil (Hawler), the capital of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. According to the party, the killing was carried out by operatives affiliated with the security agencies of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

PAK’s Intelligence and Security Unit issued an official statement announcing that Soran Mohammadzadeh, a member of the party, had been assassinated by a team linked to Iranian security organizations on Thursday, July 2, 2026.

Hengaw Organization for Human Rights has learned that Mohammadzadeh’s body was discovered at around 5:00 p.m. local time on Saturday, June 27, 2026, in a hotel in Erbil by security forces of the Kurdistan Region. According to his relatives and preliminary forensic findings, he had been dead for several days before his body was found.

In its statement, PAK said that although it had obtained information about the circumstances of the assassination shortly after the body was discovered, it deliberately refrained from making the case public in order to prevent Iranian intelligence agencies from exploiting the situation. However, the security authorities of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq have not issued any official statement regarding the incident.

Over the past decades, the Kurdistan Region of Iraq has repeatedly been the scene of targeted cross-border assassinations of political activists, refugees, and members of Kurdish opposition parties by intelligence agencies of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Human rights organizations have consistently warned about the failure to ensure the safety of political refugees and members of Kurdish opposition parties in the Kurdistan Region.

The Hengaw Organization for Human Rights condemns the cross-border assassination of Soran Mohammadzadeh and calls on the authorities of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and international human rights bodies to launch an independent and transparent investigation aimed at identifying and apprehending those responsible, while ensuring the protection of exiled political activists.