Ali Karimi was born in the 1950s in Mahabad and completed his primary and secondary education there. He then went to Tehran, Iran, where he continued his studies until 1978, when the People's Revolution against the Shah of Iran began. It was there that he became acquainted with politics and was very active. He returned to Mahabad due to violence and danger to his life. After the Hakkari tragedy, he joined the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) in Nawzang and became a friend of the late leader Nawshirwan Mustafa. Until the victory of the revolution in Iran and the fall of the Shah, he helped the Peshmerga and the struggle of the new revolution. He and several close friends in Mahabad were close collaborators and friends of the Marxist-Leninist Committee and later Ranjdaran. At the beginning of the Islamic Republic's invasion of East Kurdistan, he became a Peshmerga in the ranks of the Revolutionary Committee of the Kurdistan Workers of Iran and the primary detachments. Until 1983, he fought in dozens of battles against the occupying forces. Until 1983, he fought in dozens of battles against the occupying forces. He participated in street fighting in most eastern cities. In 1983, when Komala decided to join the Communist Party of Iran, he and several of his comrades left Komalai Ranjdaran and went to the free zones independently with weapons. After the capture of most of the free areas by the Islamic Republic forces, he moved south and joined the Peshmergas of the Kurdistan National Union. In late 1984, he went abroad. He has lived in South Kurdistan since 2000 and travels abroad. After 11 years of continuous work, he published Zabihi's life and stories in 1999 in Sweden. He has written hundreds of articles and interviews in magazines, radio and television about his opposition to the Islamic Republic, corruption and the KRG. In 2008, he published the national magazine of Kurdistan Revival Association (Zhekaf) in collaboration with Zhin Center in Sulaymaniyah under the title Nishtiman. In 2009, he signed an agreement with the Change (Gorran) Movement and was responsible for KNN media and television. He now lives in Sulaymaniyah as an independent critic and every now and then returns to London.[1]