ژورنال سایت خبری سیاسی ژورنال
PDF-English Journal-8 July 2025-No19
The Kurdistan Human Rights Network has reported the death of Khaled Mohammadi, a 23-year-old kulbar from Baneh, who was fatally shot by Iranian border forces in the mountainous frontier areas of the city. On Tuesday, 7 July, in the Shabdin border zone, a group of kulbars came under close-range fire from border guards. Khaled Mohammadi was killed on the spot.
Khaled did not die under foreign fire. He was killed by an enemy “from within”. According to reports, he had set out for the border following his engagement ceremony the previous evening. Now, not only has the Islamic Republic taken his life, but it has cast his fiancée, his family, and his entire community into mourning.
Do you remember? During the twelve-day war, a sinister whisper made its way out of the Islamic regime’s media suggesting that Israel’s war supplies had been smuggled into Iran by Kurdish kulbars. That whisper was a declaration of war—one that effectively signed the death warrant of every porter, branding them Mossad spies.
This is the regime we’re dealing with—one that mows down its own unemployed youth to preserve a paradise built for its ruling elite, a paradise erected on the ruins of poverty, despair, and mass death. This enemy has haunted us for 46 bitter years—a plague, a death machine at the heart of our lives.
The Islamic Republic, in its fear of public outrage, has still not returned Khaled’s body to his family. The regime fears the corpse of a young man might become the spark for a storm that could bring it down. And that fear is not unfounded. People can, and must, rise against this organised state violence.
In Kurdistan, resistance has shown that it has both the will and the capacity to mobilise against the killers of life and humanity. We must build our own collectives, our grassroots formations for direct action. And we must respond to every assault by the regime with sweeping waves of protest and resistance.
Let every death become a platform from which we strike harder at the regime of murderers.
*Kulbars, primarily from the Iranian Kurdish regions, transport goods across the borders of Iran, Iraq,Turkey, and Syria, often under dangerous conditions. They typically carry goods on their backs along mountainous routes, often weighing between 25 to 50 kilograms, sometimes heavier, and the routes can be around 10 kilometres long, with some stretching longer distances.
Editor: Patty Debonitas
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