David McDowall. The Kurds: A Nation Denied. Minority Rights Group. 1992: 70. ISBN 9781873194300. The KDPI (which had moved to the left in the meantime) adopted an anti-imperialist position, declaring their opposition to the Shah's regime...
Mark Edmond Clark, An Analysis of the Role of the Iranian Diaspora in the Financial Support System of the Mujahedin-e-Khalq, David Gold (編), Terrornomics, Routledge: 67–68, 2016, ISBN 978-1317045908
Michael G. Lortz. The Kurdish Warrior Tradition and the Importance of the Peshmerga. Willing to Face Death: A History of Kurdish Military Forces - the Peshmerga - from the Ottoman Empire to Present-day Iraq (學位論文). Florida State University Libraries: 27. 2005 [2022-11-19]. (原始內容存檔於2021-04-16).
Jeffrey S. Dixon; Meredith Reid Sarkees. INTRA-STATE WAR #816: Anti-Khomeini Coalition War of 1979 to 1983. A Guide to Intra-state Wars: An Examination of Civil, Regional, and Intercommunal Wars, 1816-2014. SAGE Publications. 2015: 384–386. ISBN 978-1-5063-1798-4.
Alex Peter Schmid; A. J. Jongman. Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran. Political terrorism: a new guide to actors, authors, concepts, data bases, theories, & literature. Transaction Publishers. 2005: 579. ISBN 978-1-4128-0469-1.
Belgin San-Akca. States in Disguise: Causes of State Support for Rebel. Oxford University Press. 2016: 95. ISBN 9780190250904. For example, the Soviet Union supported the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (KDPI), first against the shah's regime in Iran and then against the religious revolutionary regime. Throughout the Cold War period, the Soviet funds were regularly channeled to the KDPI.
Entessar, Nader. Kurdish Politics in the Middle East. Lanham: Lexington Books(英語:Lexington Books). 2010: 48. ISBN 9780739140390. OCLC 430736528. Throughout much of the 1980s, the KDPI received aid from the Ba'thi regime of Saddam Hussein, but Ghassemlou broke with Baghdad in 1988 after Iraq used chemical weapons against Kurds in Halabja and then forced Kurdish villagers to...
David Romano. The Kurdish Nationalist Movement: Opportunity, Mobilization and Identity. Cambridge University Press. 2006: 251. ISBN 9780521684262. The Iraqi PUK and Iranian KDPI have often assisted each other, and roughly 5,000 Kurdish volunteers from Turkey went to Iran to fight Khomeini's government forces in 1979.
Joseph R. Rudolph Jr. Encyclopedia of Modern Ethnic Conflicts, 2nd Edition [2 volumes]. ABC-CLIO. 2015: 490. ISBN 9781610695534. Moreover, in August 2012, the KDPI and the Komala, now led by Abdullah Mohtadi, reached a strategic agreement calling for federalism in Iran to undo the national oppression suffered by the Kurds.
Michael M. Gunter. Historical Dictionary of the Kurds. Scarecrow Press. 2010: 133. ISBN 9780810875074. During the late 1940s and the early 1950s, the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI) cooperated closely with the Tudeh, or Iranian Communist Party.
Hussein Tahiri. The Structure of Kurdish Society and the Struggle for a Kurdish State. Bibliotheca Iranica: Kurdish studies series 8. Mazda Publications. 2007: 144. ISBN 9781568591933. Between 1984 and 1991, the KDPI and Komala fought each other vigorously.
Buchta, Wilfried, Who rules Iran?: the structure of power in the Islamic Republic, Washington DC: The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, The Konrad Adenauer Stiftung: 102, 104, 2000, ISBN 978-0-944029-39-8
自由之家, Freedom in the World 2011: The Annual Survey of Political Rights and Civil Liberties, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers: 321, 2011, ISBN 9781442209961
Ghassemlou, A.R. Kurdistan in Iran. Gérard Chaliand (編). A People Without a Country: The Kurds and Kurdistan. London: Zed Books. 1993: 106–118. ISBN 978-1-85649-194-5.
Roger Howard. Iran in Crisis?: The Future of the Revolutionary Regime and the US Response. Indiana Series in Middle East Studies. Zed Books. 2004: 185. ISBN 9781842774755.