Statement from the Anarchist Front of Iran and Afghanistan condemning state wars

We, the anarchist front of Iran and Afghanistan, reaffirm our unshakable and principled position:

Every war – on every scale and on every excuse – initiated or sustained by states, must be unequivocally condemned.

Countries, regardless of their shape or appearance, use war as a tool for survival and control. And in this process, the lives, dignity and future of ordinary people are trampled under their feet.

At a time when the world is once again plagued by violence, bombs, death, displacement, and insecurity, we insist on this ongoing truth: the real victims of war are always the people—not the countries, not ideologies, not borders.

Our fight, as always, is not for the redistribution of power among the elites, but against the institution of the state itself and all forms of organized control.

We stand in solidarity – carefully and decisively – alongside the people of Iran, Afghanistan and the wider region.

What we are witnessing today is, on the one hand, the blatant crimes of the Israeli regime, targeting civilians in Gaza and elsewhere with wild cruelty. On the other hand, we see the Islamic Republic of Iran manipulating public fear, playing geopolitical games at the cost of the lives of Iranians, and imposing the burden of war on society.

We see the Islamic Republic not only as the outbreak of a regional war, but as part of a global chain of control and oppression – a regime that has for decades been attacking the Iranian people with censorship, poverty, imprisonment, torture and execution, and recklessly endangering millions through military provocations.

While we condemn the atrocities of the Zionist regime in the harshest terms, we also state that the struggle against the Islamic Republic is part of our broader struggle against all states and structures of control – a struggle that will continue.

We fight for a world without borders, without countries, without armies or authorities – a world in which humanity, life and freedom are at the center. Our main war has always been the war against political authority, totalitarianism and the state itself.

Iran and Afghanistan anarchist front