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Iran's Ebadi Collects Nobel, Takes Swipe at West
Reuters - World News
Dec 10, 2003



OSLO - Iran's Shirin Ebadi became the first Muslim woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize Wednesday and sent a bold anti-war message to the West, accusing it of hiding behind the Sept. 11 attacks to violate human rights.

Reformist lawyer Ebadi, who was recognized for her work for the rights of women and children in Iran, was handed the prize by the head of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Ole Danbolt Mjoes, at a glittering ceremony at the Oslo City Hall.

Ebadi slammed the U.S. administration for double standards in ignoring U.N. resolutions in the Middle East, while using them as a pretext to go to war in Iraq. The audience included Hollywood couple Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones, star hosts of Thursday's Nobel concert.

"In the past two years, some states have violated the universal principles and laws of human rights by using the events of Sept. 11 and the war on international terrorism as a pretext," she said in a prepared acceptance speech.

"Regulations restricting human rights and basic freedoms ... have been justified and given legitimacy under the cloak of the war on terrorism."

Wearing no headscarf for the ceremony, the 56-year-old who won the $1.4 million prize for her work for the rights of women and children in Iran, lashed out at what she called breaches of the Geneva conventions at the U.S. Guantanamo Bay military jail.

Ebadi said Guantanamo prisoners had been "without the benefit of the rights stipulated under the international Geneva conventions, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the (U.N.) International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights."

Ebadi, Iran's first female judge before the 1979 Islamic revolution forced her to step aside in favor of men, said it was worrying that human rights were violated by the same Western democracies that had initiated the principles.

The laureate said she, like other human rights activists, questioned why some U.N. resolutions were binding to the West and others were ignored.

Ebadi, who has become a symbol of reformist hope in Iran while labeled a political stooge of the West by conservative clerics, also pointed a finger at her own government, urging Tehran to accept that reform is inevitable.

"In fact, it is not so easy to rule over a people who are aware of their rights, using traditional, patriarchal and paternalistic methods," she said.


Instead of attacking mullahs' human rights violations and the other regional leaders' violations of human rights, she preferred to attack the democratic nations
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[stefania]

she is the usual Nobel Prize winner like the past winners Arafat,Carter,Kissinger,etc..all people which disrespect the human rights..

Oslo is Oslo is Oslo !

Of course you couldn't expect that they award an iranian living in the H-LL of the Islamic Regime such as Ahmad Batebi

Of course,the mullahs will be more than happy that she renounced to do this speech against them..they are proud of her
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[Sasan]

Now don't kill me for saying this, but: Your lack of knowlege really hurts me. Do you even know who Batebi's lawyer was??Why his verdict was reduced from death to eight months? No, i didn't think so! Arn't you a girl, well if you are, you should be glad, that someone makes it easier for girls and the younger ones in Iran! No really, correct me if I'm wrong. Who cares about Arafat, don't compare Arafat whit Ebadi. Man we have to thank people like Ebadi for changing Iran, she actually does something about the situation. She doesn't sit on her ass all day writing **** that doesn't help the country a bit! No offense, but that's what all of you people are doing, including my brother Saman. It's good that you people care, but what does it help? I'm sorry man, but that's the truth. You either get your ass down to Iran, and actually do something, or you sit quiet, not criticizing those who actually "got the balls to do it"!

PS. of course there are other people who also deserves a price or two, but that doesn't mean that Ebadi doesn't deserve it!

[cyrus]

[Spenta]

With all the suffering in Iran, the torture and the horrors of political prisoners, her only aggressive remarks addressed the rights of Palestinians and a bunch of terrorist Taliban held in Guantanamo? Gimme a break ! Ebadi is doing everything imaginable to discredit herself!

There is nothing that Stefania or anyone else could say about her at this point that is deiscreditting her as much as what she herself is saying. She has wasted an opportunity with the whole world watching, instead of helping her own suffering nation.

I have Zero respect for her!

[HarmonicSymphony]

[stefania]

Despite she invites to go to vote, the people will boycott the elections!

Reforms are not possible..

Referendum is the only way!
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[stefania]

many Iranians in Iran are pro-American and even pro-Israel. I organized an important conference in my city with kaveh Mohseni,a SMCCDI-Daneshjoo.org member and he told me that most of the Iranians are disappointed by her and that before we Westernrs knew that she won the prize,many Iranians already knew that.

And Kaveh said that she is close to Khatami..
After all, Europe can be easily decieved by the Khatami's comrades.. She has been appointed by some Khatami's boys in Europe in a moment in which the regime is facing numerous threats at international level..

To convince Europe to continue to do business with them and that the "reformists" are good, they do whatever they can..

Oslo is Oslo is Oslo..

Carter,Arafat,etc...
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