Iranian women will fight alongside their countrymen should the United States attack them over the alleged nuclear weapon issue, an advisor to the Iranian president said Tuesday.
Dr Zahra Shojaei, an advisor on women affairs to the Iranian President and head of the Centre for Women's Participation, said that Iranian women would definitely put up resistance to such attack, just like they did during the Iraq-Iran war.
History showed that Iranian women were at the war frontier as well as assisting from behind during the nine-year Iraq-Iran war which ended in 1988, she told Bernama [Malaysian News Agency]. She is leading her country's delegation to the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Ministerial Meeting on the Advancement of Women [in Putrajaya, Malaysia] which ends Tuesday.
"However, I believe the United States is wise enough not to attack Iran as the experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan are enough for them," she said.
Dr Shojaei said that during the Iraq-Iran war following the invasion of Iraq on Iran on Sept 22 1980, some Iranian women even wrote poems to boost the morale of their soldiers in defending their country.
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Female doctors and surgeons also helped in the war while some women were captured by the Iraqi soldiers and died as martyrs, she said.
The US had labelled Iran as part of the axis of evil and alleged that the country was developing nuclear weapons through its uranium enrichment programmes although Iran had denied the allegation, stating that its nuclear programmes were meant for peaceful use including for power generation. The US had hinted that it may attack Iran should the country develop the alleged nuclear weapons. |