Shirin Ebadi (archive photo)
צילום: איי פי
A different Iran
Iranian human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Shirin Ebadi says, ‘Israel has a right to exist alongside a Palestinian state,’ adding that national survey should determine fate of Islamic Republic’s nuclear program
“President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s statements calling for Israel to be wiped off the map are unacceptable; Israel has a right to exist alongside a Palestinian state,” Iranian Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Shirin Ebadi said Tuesday.
The human rights activist said during a visit to Rome, where she is attending a seminar on Islam, that the solution to the nuclear crisis “is in the hands of the Iranian people.”
“Ahmadinejad claims uranium enrichment is the will of the people,” Ebadi, a law professor at the University of Tehran, told Italy’s ANSA news agency.
“Therefore, a UN-sponsored survey should be held to determine if his claims coincide with the people’s will. Only such a survey will determine whether Iran’s nuclear program will persist.”
However, Ebadi warned US President George W. Bush not to attack the Islamic Republic, saying “I hope he has learned the lesson from the war in Iraq.”
