Biography

Dr. Saeed Barzani was born in 1930 in the village of Bedudi, affiliated with the Piran sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil province. In 1953, he began his studies at Lunacharsky near Tashkent. He married Bklal Ililna Novia in the Soviet Union, and they had two sons named Aziz and Ahmed. Later, he continued his studies at the Party School in Moscow. After July 14, 1958, the immortal Barzani returned to Kurdistan, and he also returned with his companions. In 1959, he became a teacher at the College of Arts at the University of Baghdad. On November 5, 1960, upon the invitation of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, on the anniversary of the October Revolution, he accompanied Mustafa Barzani  to the Soviet Union, where he was able to complete his studies and receive his institute diploma. In 1961, for the second time, at the request of Mustafa Barzani to the authorities of the Soviet Union, he was accepted into the academy for doctoral studies (Nauka), which was specialized in academic learning in the fields of sociology and culture. He continued his studies and was able to obtain a doctorate in the history department. In this same academy, his wife was also accepted as a student and received a doctorate in the Russian language. In 1970, he returned and was appointed to the College of Arts at the University of Baghdad, and his wife, as a Russian language teacher, handled the tasks of Mullah Mustafa Barzani that were related to the Russian ambassador in Iraq.

Struggle Record

Ahmed Hasko Ibrahimi, known as Ahmed Nadir, who was his father, was among those whom Mullah Mustafa appointed as deputies along with Abdullah Karkamoyi and Wali Beg in the Barzan region because he had great trust in them. His father, Ahmed Nadir, was responsible for the protection of the Zet gorge in 1932, and he was martyred in the 1935 uprising during a hand-to-hand battle on Govend Mountain on the border between North and South Kurdistan, near the village of Argosh.

Dr. Saeed joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution in 1943. On October 12, 1943, he participated in the capture of the Khirazok police station. Because of this, on August 19, 1945, by order of the military tribunal, all his movable and immovable property was seized. On September 5, 1945, he participated in the capture of the Meydan Moriki police station.

 On October 11, 1945, after the collapse of the Second Barzan Revolution, he headed to Eastern Kurdistan. On March 31, 1946, he served as a Peshmerga in the Barzan Force affiliated with the army of the Republic of Kurdistan and participated in the battles of the Saqqez front in the Republic of Kurdistan. On May 3, 1946, he participated in the battle of Milqareni in Eastern Kurdistan.

 After the fall of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad and the return of Barzani from Eastern Kurdistan to Southern Kurdistan, he participated in the battle of Naghadeh and the battle of Oshnavieh in Eastern Kurdistan. He was also among the Peshmerga who returned to the Shirwan and Mazuri region on April 19, 1947, through (Khwakurk and the Barazgir plain) via the territory of Northern Kurdistan.

After their return, General  Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his companions on May 15, 1947, in the village of Argosh and gave them the choice of staying or heading toward the Soviet Union. There, all the companions decided to continue and head toward the Soviet Union. On May 23, 1947, he accompanied General  Mustafa Barzani toward the Soviet Union and participated in the battle of the Qotur valley and the battle of the Maku bridge. After much hardship and fatigue, on June 18, 1947, he crossed the Aras River, which is located on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union, into the Soviet Union.

After arriving in the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, he and all his companions were placed in an open-air compound surrounded by barbed wire in the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan for forty days. They were guarded by a group of soldiers and were treated like prisoners of war in terms of food, clothing, and movement. Later, by the decision of the Soviet government, they were distributed among the regions of Aghdam, Lachin, Ayulakh, and Kalbajar in the Republic of Azerbaijan. On December 10, 1947, they were moved to a military camp on the Caspian Sea in Baku, the capital of the Republic of Azerbaijan, and on the 23rd of the same month, they were given military uniforms and, under the supervision of the officers of the Republic of Azerbaijan, were given eight hours of military training daily.

After the poor treatment by Jafar Bagirov toward his companions, it was decided to move the military camp on August 29, 1948, from the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Charchuk complex near Tashkent, the capital of the Republic of Uzbekistan, where they continued their military training.

In March 1949, he and his companions were distributed in groups and squads by train among the collective villages of the Soviet Union, and they worked on the collective farms (the lands that people rented from the government and later gave the government's share back).

After much effort and the sending of several letters by General Barzani to Stalin, a letter finally reached Stalin in which Barzani described the hardships of his companions. He immediately ordered the formation of a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's companions, and the committee's decision was that they should all be gathered in the city of Vrevsky. Therefore, he went to the city of Vrevsky in the Soviet Union in November 1951.

After the July 14, 1958 revolution in Iraq and the return of General Mustafa Barzani, on February 25, 1959, and in accordance with both the third and seventh articles and paragraph (A) of the tenth article, and by working with article (11) based on the amended Law No. 19 of 1959, he and his companions were covered by the general amnesty.

In 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the presidency of Abd al-Karim Qasim. On April 16, 1959, he returned to Kurdistan with his comrades via the port of Basra in southern Iraq on the ship Grozia. In the same year, 1959, in Baghdad, the capital of the Republic of Iraq, he, along with Mustafa Abdullah Faqi Nabi and Babakir Sheikh Hussein Lachin, became a bodyguard for Mullah  Mustafa Barzani .

 In 1973, upon the instruction of the immortal Barzani, he left the University of Baghdad and returned to southern Kurdistan and participated in the Aylul Revolution and went to the Hassan Beg front. In 1974, he participated in the battles of Zozk, Handren, Sartiz, and the Omar Agha gorge. In 1975, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution he went to Iran as a refugee and settled in Naqadeh, and later went to Karaj.

 In 1976, he participated in the Gulan Revolution. In 1977, he was the head of Branch 2 of the right wing in the Barzan, Mergasor, Sidekan, and Soran border areas. On November 4, 1979, at the 9th Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party he became a member of the Central Committee. From 1979 to 1980, he was the head of the left-wing force in Branch 1. After the 9th Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party the right-wing force of Branch 2 was renamed the Barzan Force (Quwati Barzan). Later, he was made the head of the Barzan region. He participated in the battles of Meroz, Kani Rash, Kherazok, Ashkautwan, Mergasor, Sherwan Mazn, Chame, Kolanadar, Sarte Gorge, Kolana Surek, the Great Bridge, Gali Bekhme, Kore, Tawk, and Rezan. In the Khwakurk battle, he was the commander of the Qati Barzan and Mergasor axis, which includes these areas: Sardaw, Hawdian and Balakian, Shivedez and Sreshme, Khalifan, Sarchiya, Hert Plain, and Barazgar Plain. On August 31, 1980, he was wounded at the Rezan bridge.

In 1988, he was the commander of the Khwakurk Western Front. In the same year, he became the commander of the Central Axis. Together with Ramazan Doski, he was the head of the Kharwanki Mountain axis in the Shirin organization area. On August 28, he was wounded by a large artillery shell on the heights of Sari Kurava and Bari Mishka and was treated by Dr. Muhammad Salih on the battlefronts.

 In 1991, he participated in the Uprising. On April 7, 1991, he was the commander of the Barzan Force and participated in the Kore epic and was the head of the right-hand flank of Pirmam. In 1993, he was made a member of the High Social Committee of the Barzan region. On August 16, 1996, within the framework of the Golden Jubilee celebrations, due to his struggle and resistance in the Second Barzan Revolution, the Republic of Kurdistan, the path to the Soviet Union, Aylul Revolution، Gulan Revolution and the Uprising, by President Masoud Barzani  he was awarded the Medal of the Immortal Barzani. He passed away on February 5, 1999, in Pirmam.

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