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Salahaddin Bahaaddin, Ali Babir, Qadir Aziz, and I recived (one million) dollars, as aid from Qassem Soleimani, to support electoral propaganda”, said Muhammad Haji Mahmoud, head of the Kurdistan Socialist Democratic Party, in a documentary, that produced by Draw Media Organization.

During the program, Haji Mahmoud talked about the achievements, revenues and budget of the Kurdish parties, from the mountains, during Saddam Hussein's regime, until their arrival to the cities as the ruler of the region.

According to Haji Mahmoud, In the beginning, the Kurdish parties were getting aid from (Syria), “and we were also receiving supports from the left-wing "Palestinian" parties through Syria.”

After 1980, the Kurdish parties visited the Libyan leader "Muammar Gaddafi", and he provided us a financial aid estimated at (3-4) million dollars.

The Kurdish parties had their own customs points in the mountainous areas, and they used to collect customs fees in their favor.

After the "Anfal" operations, Iran provided monthly aid to the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, the Kurdistan Socialist Democratic Party and the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

After the uprising in Kurdistan in 1991, the Kurdish parties distributed the customs revenues between them as follows:

30% for the Kurdistan Democratic Party

30% for the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan

15% for the Kurdistan Socialist Democratic Party

8% for the Communist Party

6% for PASOK

4% for Kurdistan Toilers' Party

Then, this mechanism changed, and the Kurdish parties began to receive sums of money from the KRG until December of 2014.

In 2009, the parties (the Islamic Union, the Kurdistan Justice Group, and the Toilers' Party) visited Iran to obtain aid from it.

Salahaddin Bahaaddin, Ali Babir, Qadir Aziz, and I recived (one million) dollars, as aid from Qassem Soleimani, to support electoral propaganda”, said Muhammad Haji Mahmoud, head of the Kurdistan Socialist Democratic Party, in a documentary, that produced by Draw Media Organization.