 This was the start of confrontation of the party and the new state, which ended in a military defeat of the Kurdish rebels.The armed conflict continued up to 1984 in the middle of Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988) where both countries supported the separatists in each other's territory.After the defeat of the armed rebellion Ghassemlou settled in Paris and joined the National Council of Resistance of Iran that was founded by his PDKI and other opposition forces