The February 14 Revolution Youth Coalition said that it declared six years ago the ‘’National Day for the Expulsion of the American Base from Bahrain,’’ on the first Friday of Holy Ramadan of each year, building on the inclusive national and sovereign stance that citizens, Sunni and Shiite, have expressed over continuous decades of struggle and popular movement that demanded freedom and independence.
On Friday, March 24, 2023, the Bahrain Political Council issued a statement on the occasion of the ‘’National Day for the Expulsion of the American Base from Bahrain’’ stating that this national popular position was reflected in the will of the citizens, which was expressed in the text of the resolution recorded by the UN envoy ‘’Giochardi’’ in 1970, which is that they were calling for ‘’an independent country with full sovereignty and free to decide by itself its relations with other countries’’. They were also supported by the Parliament of Independence (1973), which led – among other reasons – to its dissolution and the abolition of the Contractual Constitution, which proved that the Caliphate regime relied on illegal foreign presence to further consolidate its absolute tyranny and escalate the confrontation of national and popular demands.
The February 14 Coalition emphasized that the presence of the US base in Bahrain ‘’Al-Juffair’’ and the return of the British base to the country in 2014 represent a flagrant reversal of Bahrain’s independence decision, emphasizing that the Al-Khalifa regime, with the support of the imperial powers in London and Washington, caused the reshaping of the colonial status in Bahrain and the usurpation of its sovereignty, in support of hostile foreign interests and contrary to the free popular will, pointing out that this is a clear violation of the United Nations Charter on the right of peoples to self-determination, in addition to its violation of the mentioned resolution of independence, which is a clear legal and sovereign crime and yet another affirmation of Al- Kahlifa’s consistent policy of pouncing on Bahrain’s sovereignty and robbing it of its true independence.
The Coalition added that the occupying nature of Al-Khalifa in attracting colonist foreigners, especially with distrust and the deepening alienating them from the indigenous citizens, is what prompted them to open the doors for foreign powers – regional and international – (down to the Zionist entity), to establish for them military, security and intelligence bases on Bahraini land, believing that this allows the continuity of their dictatorial regime, and provides support and cover for their violations and suppression of popular democratic demands, explaining that the rejection of the foreign colonial presence in Bahrain and the affirmation of the people’s right to preserve their sovereignty and national independence are the other side (inherent) of rejecting the Caliphate’s tyranny, and of the comprehensive struggle in order to bring down the system of corruption and tyranny in the country.
The February 14 Coalition stated that the American military presence (like the British) faced various forms of sustained and growing popular opposition, but the regime quickly turned against its pledge to the people to expel it under American pressure at that time, and greed for the annual rent of the base, to extend this American military presence with the establishment of the Fifth Fleet in late March 1979, and took Bahrain as its headquarters, which was a den of conspiracies, wars and crisis that the Gulf has been mired in since then, while the base in (Juffair) turned with time into a headquarter for all US bases and their (aggressive) military formations in the region.
On the National Day for the Expulsion of the American Base from Bahrain, the Coalition reiterate that the people of Bahrain and itself reject the existence of all aggressive and destructive foreign bases, condemning the role played by US bases in the country at the level of overshadowing the crimes of the regime, as well as the pitfalls of crisis and conspiracies in the region, and supporting in this regard the libertarian stance of the forces of the resistance axis which called for the withdraw of US forces from West Asia, and working to quell the strife and wars that they cause among the peoples of the region, affirming at the same time the right of these peoples to legitimate resistance to any foreign presence that is hostile to them and conspires against their hopes for freedom, independence and decent life.
