NCRI’s Women’s Committee condemns misogynist remarks by Iraq’s National Security Advisor against women in Camp Ashraf and urges support for them
NCRI – The Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran condemns suppressive measures and illegal remarks by Mouwaffaq al-Rubaie, Iraqi National Security Advisor, against Ashraf residents, particularly 1,000 female residents. It also calls on all human rights and women’s rights organizations to denounce pressures on women residing in Camp Ashraf.
In an interview with Al-Hurra Arab TV network on March 27, al-Rubaie, using the same misogynist attitude as the mullahs ruling Iran said that women in Ashraf should go back to their country. In an earlier interview with Al-Iraqiya TV on March 21, he said, “There are 900 women in the Camp [Ashraf]. We think that these women will go back to their families in Iran.”
The logic used by al-Rubaie and his comments on women in Ashraf are clear examples of prevailing discriminatory and misogynist views of the Iranian clerical regime which violates many international conventions. He should be told that the women who did not surrender to the ruling religious fascism in Iran and did not fear imprisonment, torture and execution, will not be discouraged by unlawful, inhuman and anti-Islamic threats of al-Rubaie and will never back down. Many of these women have spent the best part of their lives in medieval prisons and torture chambers of the mullahs’ regime.
Ms. Sarvnaz Chitsaz, Chair of the NCRI’s Women’s Committee, condemned the Iraqi official’s disrespect for one thousand women residing Ashraf and described his remarks as blatant violations of the International Humanitarian Law, Geneva Conventions as well as conventions and resolutions concerning the rights of women including the Security Council resolution 1325.
She added that forcible displacement of Ashraf residents, in particular that of women, would be absolutely unlawful and a clear example of crime against humanity liable for judicial prosecution.
Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
March 29, 2009