Iranian women would fight alongside their countrymen should the United States attack them over the alleged nuclear weapon issue, an advisor to the Iranian president said Tuesday in Putrajaya, Malaysia.

Iranian women would definitely put up resistance to such attack, just like they did during the Iraq-Iran war, Zahra Shojaei, an advisor on women affairs to the Iranian President, was quoted by Malaysia National News Agency as saying.

Shojaei said 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 is leading her country's delegation to the Non-Aligned Movement(NAM) Ministerial Meeting on the Advancement of Women here 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.

Shojaei said that during the Iraq-Iran war, some Iranian women even wrote poems to boost the morale of their soldiers in defending their country.

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 United States has labeled Iran as part of the axis of evil and alleged that the country is developing nuclear weapons through its uranium enrichment programs although Iran has denied the allegation, stating that its nuclear programs are meant for peaceful use including for power generation.

The United States has also hinted that it may attack Iran should the country develop the alleged nuclear weapons.

During the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, it claimed that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction to justify its pre-emptive military strike against the country although no such weapon has been found.

Source: Xinhua