Hussein Yazdanpana The Kurdish Leader Calls For The Toppling Of The Islamic Republic Of Iran: ‘We Firmly Support Israel’s Operation Rising Lion Against The Islamic Republic’

Iran | Special Dispatch No. 12023

Gen. Hussein Yazdanpana is the leader of the Parti Azadi Kurdistan (“Kurdistan Freedom Party,” PAK), one of the major militant groups from Eastern Kurdistan (Rojhelat, the Kurdistan region under Iran’s rule).[1]

As soon as Israel’s pre-emptive strike against Iran started, known as Operation Rising Lion, Gen. Hussein Yazdanpana called on the youth of Kurdistan, both inside and outside Iran, to attack the Islamic Republic of Iran.

(See MEMRI Clip N. 12073, Hussein Yazdanpanah, Leader of Youth to Attack Iranian Regime Targets, Avenge “Kurdistan’s Martyrs,” June 15, 2025)

Following are some of Gen. Hussein Yazdanpana’s tweets from June 13, 2025:[2]

Yazdanpana: The Time For Uprising And Overthrow Of The Regime Has Come

Yazdanpana tweeted: “[Israel’s Operation Rising Lion] has ushered in a historic moment. Tehran, confronted by a vastly superior power, stands disgraced and politically exposed.”

He wrote: “We firmly support Israel’s Operation Rising Lion against the Islamic Republic. The destruction of Iran’s military infrastructure and war machine will pave the way for the liberation of the people and bring an end to the regime’s aggressive and terrorist activities in the region and across the world.”

“Iran’s military infrastructure will never be rebuilt. The regime’s repressive forces have collapsed. The time has come to seize military bases and government centers, ” he tweeted.

“[The Iranian Supreme Leader Ali] Khamenei is lying! Residential areas have not been attacked [by Israel]. What has been attacked are military sites and the hideouts of the commanders of the terrorist IRGC,” he said.

“It is time for the armed groups to turn their weapons against the criminal commanders [of the IRGC],” he wrote.

He tweeted: “The time for uprising and overthrow of the regime has come. The regime’s machine of repression has been completely broken.”