Foad Mustafa Sultani was born in 1949 in the village of Almana in Marivan. In 1968, he entered Sharif University of Technology in Tehran and began studying electronics. From there he began his political activities. A year later, in the autumn of 1968, he and some of his comrades formed an organization that later became known as Komala.
Mr. Fouad and his comrades played a great role in enlightening the Kurdistan workers under the oppression of the Shah of Iran. In 1976, the SAVAK arrested him, but he became the leader of the revolutions and protest movements in prison.
He was released from prison in 1978. Mr. Fouad played an important role in the progress and unification of the waves of the revolution against the Shah of Iran in the cities of Marivan and Sna.
The formation of the Peasants' Union and the activation of the first group of Komala Peshmergas (the organ of the Kurdistan Workers' Party) were one of Mr. Fuad's most important achievements in this regard.
Mr. Fuad was martyred on 31-08-1979 by the Iranian central government forces in an armed battle.
Mr. Fouad was a Kurdish political leader who had a great influence on events in East Kurdistan after the 1979 Iranian popular uprising.
Before graduation, the Iranian Shah's Guard forces attacked the students' rest area. Mr. Fouad, who was about twenty years old at the time, attacked a guard commander with a sword in order to protect his rights and those of his friends. That is why he was arrested and sent to prison.
After his release and graduation, Mr. Fuad was employed in several good jobs, but he was always under the supervision of the Savak and therefore was never allowed to work in Kurdistan.
At that time, after the 1953 coup, parliament had lost its power and independence, and no institution had full power except the monarchy. To protect the security of the monarchy, with the help of the CIA, they formed an organization called the Savak, which in the following days cast a shadow of fear and death on all spheres of life of the Iranian people in general and Kurdistan in particular.
After 1953, the opposition of the National Front and the Tudeh Party were completely suppressed, but several other movements emerged that believed in armed warfare. In 1969, Mr. Fouad and several of his comrades, mostly university students, formed a political organization that later became known as Komala.
They believed in true Marxism and socialism, that is, on the demands of the people, not on what the Eastern countries had based on ideas. They did not believe in armed warfare and considered themselves different from the policies of the Tudeh Party. Near the Iranian uprising, Mr. Fouad was imprisoned and in July 1979, he was released along with other political prisoners as a result of a strike. When Mr. Fuad was released from prison, Kurdistan was going through a great experience and important political changes. With the return of Komala members to their hometowns, a political and social movement was launched that would certainly never have been formed without personalities such as Mr. Fouad, Hama Hossein Karimi, Dr. Jafar Shafi'i and Sadiq Kamangar.
Komala was secret until several days after the victory of the Iranian people's uprising, but after the killing of Hama Hossein Karimi, another of its founders, in the occupation of the police station in Saqiz on February 15, 1979, the movement revealed itself.
In less than a year, the Kurdish people, who now cared about political events and considered themselves responsible for the future of the country, had passed a happy democratic period, stood up against the Islamic Republic and did not give up their legitimate rights. Therefore, the then leader of the Islamic Republic, Khomeini, ordered the newly formed Revolutionary Guards to occupy Kurdistan. Iran's first president, Bani Sadr, said the forces should not remove their boots until their work in Kurdistan was completed.
At that time, Kurdistan was the only place in Iran where there was an open political space, so the central government wanted to suppress it. In the summer of 1979, Kurdistan's cities and villages were targeted by air and ground attacks by the Revolutionary Guards and the Iranian army, and army forces were sent to Kurdistan's cities. But in the autumn of the same year, they were forced to leave the cities in protest. Kurdistan remained free until the spring of 1980 (1359) until it was again the result of the attacks of the Islamic Republic and this was the beginning of the second resistance of the peoples of East Kurdistan against the forces of the Islamic Republic.
Mr. Fuad led to several social and political successes in Kurdistan, including:
Encouraging the agreement of an unprecedented movement in Kurdistan
Opening the door to dialogue with the invaders
Bringing women into social movements
Communicate the results of the discussions and meetings to the public
Insisting on decisions by the people's elected representatives
Relations between Kurdistan parties
Preparing Kurdistan for subsequent attacks
Organize a defense organization consisting of Peshmergas to protect the Kurdish people and their rights from inhuman attacks by the army, especially the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.
Mr. Fuad's role in the history of the movements in East Kurdistan after 1979 is unprecedented. Only eight months after his release from prison and until his assassination at the age of 31, he was able to draw a new chapter in the history of the Kurdish people's freedom fighters.
In a village called Bastam, between Saqiz and Marivan, they accidentally encountered a group of traitors and army guards and fought. The number of Mr. Fuad's comrades was very small and they had not gone to war. As a result, unfortunately, Mr. Fuad and many of his comrades were martyred.
The path of Mr. Fuad, Mr. Hama Hossein Karimi and Dr. Jafar Shafi'i in the fields of politics, social and armed warfare and the reasons for the establishment of Komala were changed with the leadership of other personalities after them. Therefore, many people consider Mr. Fouad's temporary Komala to be different from the current Komala, and some people consider the reason for this to be very close to the Iranian Communist Party.[1]