Weekly Statement: The Day of Anger Will Not Stop, and the Slogan of This Phase Is Adherence to the Directive of the Leading Jurist: “Persistent and Resolute Demands for the Safety of the Religious Scholars”
The Political Council of the February 14 Youth Coalition has issued its weekly statement. The text reads as follows:
In the Name of Allah, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful
The Political Council of the February 14 Youth Coalition affirms that the case involving the trial of the esteemed religious scholars in Bahrain represents the most dangerous dimension of the war of ethnic cleansing and extermination being waged against the indigenous citizens of our usurped homeland. This war has been ongoing since the Al Khalifa seized control of the country more than two centuries ago, and it continues to this day without interruption, albeit in different forms.
We consider this trial to be the foremost issue in the current phase of the confrontation. The people, their leadership, and their national forces will not relent in pursuing this fateful struggle, regardless of the policy of blackmail and political manoeuvring pursued by the Al Khalifa regime through repeated postponements of court hearings and its blatant use of intimidation and inducement tactics.
In light of the above, we set out the following key points in this week’s statement:
1. We stress that opposition to the trial of the esteemed religious scholars is an integral part of the people’s and their leadership’s chosen course of strong resistance against the war of erasure and ethnic cleansing led by the tyrant Hamad. He is exploiting the circumstances of the US-Zionist war against Iran to complete what his conquering ancestors began: the eradication of the Shiite presence and the obliteration of its religious and historical identity.
We make this position clear to affirm that the popular Day of Anger, which began on 8 November, will not come to an end as a result of the postponement of the verdict. Nor will this groundswell subside or lose momentum, regardless of the ruling issued by the illegitimate courts of Al Khalifa. This is a phase of public anger aimed at defending identity and existence, both of which will remain under threat as long as the Al Khalifa continue to rule Bahrain and its people.
2. We are confident that our people, their leadership, their religious scholars, and their active forces have firmly settled their position and decision to adhere resolutely to the directive of the fatherly jurist, Ayatollah Isa Qassim (may Allah preserve him), who stated unequivocally that there must be “persistent and resolute demands, without interruption or waning, for the safety of the religious scholars.”
This directive will serve as the slogan of this phase, as we regard it as a decisive instruction intrinsically linked to His Eminence’s historic religious ruling prohibiting any cessation of popular mobilisation.
Our people and his followers pledge to him that this movement will continue with full determination and strength until the tyrant is compelled to desist and withdraws his malicious hand from religion, faith, and the religious scholars.
The Al Khalifa faction must not imagine that the manoeuvre of postponing the verdict against the scholars held captive will dissipate public anger. Our people are deeply protective of their homeland and faith. They refuse humiliation and subjugation, and they are not intimidated by terror or death. The steadfastness they have demonstrated throughout the February 14 Revolution for more than 15 years stands as a message and a lesson.
3. In this context, we extend our profound greetings and immense appreciation to our dear and loyal people, who have stood united like an unbreakable structure, answered the call of religion and conscience, and remained present in public squares and gathering places, undeterred by threats or the forces of mercenaries.
While the tyrant places his hopes in his alliance with the Zionists and the Americans, our reliance, after Allah Almighty, rests on the equation of “the people, the opposition, and the leadership.” This equation has become more firmly established than ever before and now constitutes the backbone of steadfast positions, unity of purpose, and a clear vision in the people’s struggle to reclaim freedom and liberate themselves from tyrannical rule.
Today, this struggle is defined by the slogan: “No to the Trial of Religious Scholars and the Faith.” It will not end until the people determine their own destiny and bring an end to the rule of the subservient tribal regime.
4. Based on the foregoing, we address the Al Khalifa and those who direct them, and say:
Just as your policy of intimidation, your reliance on American military bases, and your alliance with the Zionists will fail, so too will your policies of impoverishment, siege, and destruction, which you impose on our people through naturalisation schemes, sectarian discrimination, the plundering of national wealth, and projects that divert public funds for the benefit of the tyrant’s sons and their pursuits in sports, automobiles, and competitions.
Your desperate attempts to impose your distorted historical narrative and force people to pledge allegiance to the tyrant and his occupying ancestors will likewise fail.
All of this will vanish like chaff scattered by the wind, just as your despicable conspiracies to undermine the foundations of authentic Bahraini society, divide its ranks, and buy loyalties and influence media voices both at home and abroad will come to nothing.
5. At the regional level, we reiterate our strong condemnation of the continued targeting of Yemeni civilians by the criminal Saudi regime, including the killing of children and women, in the same manner as the Zionist entity, which continues its genocidal war against our people in occupied Palestine and denies the besieged population of Gaza even the most basic necessities of life.
We are convinced that the Al Saud, the Al Khalifa, and the other regimes of normalisation and betrayal in the Gulf and across the region will face just retribution for the crimes they have committed, their subservience, and their distortion and falsification of the values and identity of this nation.
The peoples of the region will be present when this anticipated reckoning arrives, at which point the Resistance Front, led by the steadfast Islamic Republic, will emerge victorious, Allah willing:
“Indeed, We will surely support Our messengers and those who believe, in the life of this world.”
(The Holy Qur’an, 40:51)Political Council –
February 14 Youth Coalition
Monday, 9 November 2026
Occupied Bahrain
