Weekly Position: Calling for the Restoration of Bahrain’s Independence Through an “Inclusive National Project” That Ends Dependency and Preserves the Identity of Our Indigenous People
The Political Council of the Coalition of February 14 Youth issued its weekly position. The following is the full text:
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
The Political Council of the Coalition of February 14 Youth reaffirms what was stated in the joint statement issued by the opposition forces on the occasion of the 55th anniversary of Bahrain’s independence. We stress that the grave challenges facing our people and our country require everyone to participate in building strategic steps at the level of national action, both inside and outside the country, and to confront the policies of subjugation and siege imposed by the Al Khalifa regime on our people. These policies must be regarded as an integral part of the nature of this criminal occupying entity, and as an expression of its continued hostility toward the indigenous citizens and its war against their identity and history. This, in turn, explains its complete alignment with foreign powers and their projects of domination, corruption, and extermination.
In light of the ongoing developments, we highlight the following points in this week’s position:
1. The Al Khalifa family undermined Bahrain’s independence and sovereignty from the outset, including the 1971 United Nations Security Council decision concerning Bahrain. The Al Khalifa regime chose complete subordination to British colonial policy and compliance with British dictates both before and after independence. This included entrenching the country’s dependence on foreign powers through their military bases, signing security and military agreements, and the continued reception by the tyrant Hamad of American and British military leaders. It also included its public contacts with the Zionists and security coordination with them. All of this constituted a complete violation and infringement of the country’s sovereignty, tying its territory to projects hostile to peoples and using it to wage aggressive wars against neighboring countries, including the war against Iran.
2. We affirm that the essence of today’s struggle to restore independence lies in building an inclusive national project based on the inseparable connection between freedom and sovereignty. This undertaking must be founded on a comprehensive project to establish a state that derives its full legitimacy from the will of the indigenous people and their right to self-determination. At the same time, this must go hand in hand with maintaining principled positions and refusing to abandon the people’s values regarding major issues related to confronting forces of hegemony and imperial arrogance, as well as normalization, in the region and the world.
3. Accordingly, we stress that the strategic gateway to restoring genuine independence lies in launching a national project aimed at preserving the authentic identity of the people of Bahrain. We believe that this project requires two complementary tracks. The first is a long-term track concerned with consolidating the civilizational and religious foundations of Bahrain’s identity and transmitting them across generations. The second is a transitional track aimed at thwarting the Al Khalifa family’s plans to undermine and distort this identity, including by countering suspicious programs directed at children and young people, such as the “Qadha” program and programs known as “Bahrainuna.” All of these, we contend, seek to distort the values of citizens, particularly young people, and incorporate them into an ideology of loyalty to the Al Khalifa family and a false form of citizenship based on glorifying security forces and the military.
4. We express our condemnation of Al Khalifa propaganda regarding their support for and embrace of young people. We affirm that the authentic youth of Bahrain refuse to resemble the criminal torturer Nasser or the other corrupt sons of the tyrant. The sons and daughters of Bahrain will not accept becoming followers of the era of the treacherous tyrant, who stands behind the greatest crimes afflicting the country through the plundering of its wealth and the squandering of its resources on the leisure and luxury of his sons, at a time when the country’s financial crises are worsening and threaten an unprecedented collapse that endangers social security and the livelihoods and economic stability of its citizens.
5. The tyrant relies on a systematic policy of repression and humiliation in an attempt to escape his failures and devastating crises, imagining that his palaces will enjoy security and comfort while he imprisons the country’s finest young people and respected scholars and drives them into exile. He continues his aggression against the people and their identity through laws of persecution, arrests, and unjust trials. However, events on the ground have repeatedly demonstrated that the people are stronger than the tyrant and his mercenaries. Our people have not raised the flag of surrender, nor have they granted the tyrant legitimacy or allegiance to his regime, which has normalized relations with Israel. The people’s cause will ultimately prevail because it represents truth and the highest religious, national, and humanitarian values.
6. On the 20th anniversary of the August 2006 victory in Lebanon, we extend our congratulations to His Eminence the Secretary-General of Hezbollah, “the Mujahid Sheikh Naim Qassem” (may God preserve him), as well as to all the leaders, fighters, and steadfast supporters of the Resistance. We affirm the belonging of the people of Bahrain to this honorable front and their loyalty to its great leaders, particularly the “Sayyid of the Martyrs of the Nation,” Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah (may God be pleased with him), who will remain the shining sun in the sky of the nation, a symbol of its dignity, steadfastness, and resilience in confronting hegemony, occupation, and normalization. He is the beacon of hope for achieving liberation and the great victory, God willing.
Political Council – Coalition of February 14 Youth
Monday, August 17, 2026
Occupied Bahrain
