The Muslim Peshmerga, officially the Organization of Kurdish Muslim Peshmergas (Persian: سازمان پیشمرگان کرد مسلمان; Sâzmân-e Pešmargân-e Kord-e Musalmân; Kurdish: ڕێکخراوی پێشمەرگەکانی کوردە موسڵمان) was a militia group formed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps after the 1979 Kurdish revolts.
[1] The group was established in February 1980 during the Iran–Iraq War, and was led by Mohammad Boroujerdi.
The purpose of the group was to recruit natives of Iranian Kurdistan as a way to guide the military forces against the separatists.
[2][3] During the Iran-Iraq war, after Kurdish separatists captured parts of Iranian Kurdistan, many locals joined the Muslim Peshmerga after seeing the chaos brought to their communities under separatist rule, while others were from poor communities and joined for income.
[4] In February 2024, the head of the Kurdistan Beit-ol-Moqaddas Corps committee announced that its goal was to reward 4,600 Muslim Peshmerga veterans, and that it had so far given loans of 15 billion Iranian Rials ($265,000) in total.