Suleiman Moini

Suleiman Moini was an Iranian Kurdish political activist. After the collapse of the 1946 republic, the political activities of the Kurds in Iran declined. Some of the 1946 political activists went to Iraqi Kurdistan and later joined the rebellion of Mustafa Barzani in the 1960s.

Suleiman Moini, in spite of being young was already an experienced freedom fighter. In the 1960s, he had been the most respected member in the KDPI collective leadership. For eighteen months, during 1967 and 1968, the KDPI led an armed combat against the Shah's heavily armed troops. In the end, the majority of its members were massacred. The party was decapitated.

Suleiman's remains, riddled with bullets, were attached to a ladder with a notice around his neck that said: "Suleiman Moini - this is how traitors die". The regime's hired ruffians carried the ladder with his body from village to village to dissuade the population from opposing the Shah.