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Abdulrahman Fattahi (Persian: عبدالرحمن فتاحی; Kurdish: عەبدوڕەحمان فەتاحی), also known as Abu Safiya al-Kurdi (Arabic: أَبُوْ صَفِيَّةُ ٱلْكُرْدِيّْ), is a Kurdish Sunni cleric from Iran. In 2014, he joined Tahrir al-Sham. After the Fall of the Assad regime, he was appointed as the Syrian deputy for Iranian affairs.

Biography

Fattahi was born in the early 1950s in Sulgheh, a village near Mahabad in Iranian Kurdistan. In the 1970s, he travelled to Iraqi Kurdistan and began his studies under Abdulqadir Tawhidi, which he completed in 1996. While completing his studies, Fattahi was a member of the Kurdistan Islamic Movement of Osman Abdulaziz and lived in the Islamic Emirate of Kurdistan. He returned to Iran in the late 1990s, where he got his clerical license from Shafi Burhani, and became the imam of Khalifan, Mahabad. His Salafi views gained the attention of Iranian authorities. He was repeatedly detained, and he was sentenced to three years in prison in 2011 in Gohardasht Prison near Tehran. In 2014, after his release, he left for Syria and joined Al-Nusra Front. He was part of a group of around 3,000 Kurds who travelled to Syria to fight. The vast majority of those Kurds joined either Ansar al-Islam or the Islamic State. Fattahi led around 300 Kurds and founded the "Iranian Sunni Muhajireen Movement", which was loyal to Al-Nusra Front, and later HTS. The group remained predominantly Kurdish. In Idlib, Fattahi served as a Sharia judge for HTS, where he remained throughout the Syrian civil war. After the Fall of the Assad regime, he gave a public speech in Kurdish at the Umayyad Mosque, addressing a group of his jihadists, where he wished for the "freedom of Jerusalem" and threatened the Iranian government.

References

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