The Principality of Kaharagia condemns the recent strikes conducted within the territory of Iran and any coordinated attempt by the State of Israel and the United States of America to impose political change through military force.
We did not support the rule of Iran’s Supreme Leader. His government was marked by repression and persistent confrontation. That judgment, however, does not confer upon external powers the authority to determine Iran’s political future by bombardment.
The intervention of 1953 altered Iran’s political course and contributed to the grievances that later culminated in the revolution of 1979 that led to the clerical dictatorship. Subsequent efforts at regime change in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya were advanced as remedies for instability. They instead produced fractured institutions, competing militias, prolonged disorder, and conditions in which extremist movements, including ISIS, gained ground.
Such outcomes are not unforeseen. When the governing framework of a state is dismantled by outside force, control over what follows is rarely retained by those who initiated the intervention, and the resulting authorities are burdened from the outset by questions of legitimacy.
Reports that schools were struck and civilians killed are of grave concern. If substantiated, they would require full and transparent accountability under the law of armed conflict. The protection of civilians is a legal obligation, not a discretionary matter.
Kaharagia rejects the proposition that strength grants licence to reshape other nations by force. Sovereignty is a foundational principle of international order and must apply equally to all states.
The Principality calls for the immediate cessation of further military action and urges a return to lawful diplomatic engagement. A further externally imposed political rupture in the region will not secure stability; it will widen the conflict and prolong its consequences.