These protests are said to be due to the execution of 17 Kurdish activists. Iranian Kurdish rebels mount numerous attacks against government forces. Over 300 Iranian soldiers are killed and over 150 are captured. A prominent Iranian Kurdish nationalist is assassinated near Geneva by what is believed to be Iranian security forces. The Kurdish opposition frees 152 POWs as a humanitarian gesture.
Iranian security arrests a Kurdish guerilla accused of killing two revolutionary guards last summer.
Iran executes seven Kurdish guerrillas, all members of the KDPI, for spying, murder and armed activities. 1.3 million Iraqi refugees, most of them Kurds , arrive in Iran in the aftermath of the Gulf War and Iraq's attacks upon its Kurdish population. Most of them return to Iraq by the end of the year. Iranian Kurdish guerrillas mount attacks against the Iranian Army. KDPI guerrillas also set fire to an exhibition of industrial machinery and briefly take policemen hostage in the town of Mahcbad.