Iran said the US used its clout to maneuver it out of the UN Rights Body, which is not according to the set rules.
Iran Calls Ousting Injustice
Tehran on Thursday accused the US of masterminding its eviction from a UN body for women's rights over its managing of protests initiated by Mahsa Amini's murder.
The Islamic republic has been seeing ripples of demonstrations since the September 16 illegal detention of Amini, a young Iranian Kurd who was arrested on charges of breaching the country's dress standards for women, reported Arab News.
Due to the street violence that ultimately resulted in hundreds of deaths and countless arrests, the country was ousted from the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women last Wednesday (UNCSW). Tehran blamed the United States for the intervention, asserting it was driven by politics as well as the outcome of coordinated efforts by its arch-enemy.
Nasser Kanani, a spokesman for the foreign ministry, contended that this preemptive move by the US. is indeed an exertion to overlook democracy in global bodies and impose unilateral political agenda. He claims that the expulsion of a lawful member of the commission is ideological blasphemy that disparages this global organization and creates a one-sided procedure for future abuses of global bodies by the US, noted RFI.
With immediate impact, Iran, which was selected to the institution in April for one four-year term, ended up losing its membership in the UN rights body.
The UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) needed a simple majority to embrace the measure; 29 members were in favor of it, eight countries, which include China and Russia, did vote against it, and 16 participants decided to abstain, citing Alarabiya.
US Forgets UN Rights Body Is for All
The content of the UN general assembly resolution said that the Iranian authorities "constantly hinder and progressively repress the human rights of women and girls, such as the right to freedom of speech and personal opinion, frequently with the use of deadly force."
The rationale for the United States endorsing the resolution, as said by Kazem Gharibabadi, the head of the high council for human rights, would have been to promote its best interest.
Tehran told on December 3 that more than 200 individuals, such as security personnel, had died in the turmoil. Human rights groups centered internationally claim that the country's security forces had already brutally murdered about 450 people.
Iran has delivered 11 death sentences in relation to the demonstrations. It has executed two in the previous week. A dozen others, according to campaigners, are facing charges that could result in death sentences.
US Wants To Eject Iran from the UN Body
The United States might try to expel Iran from the 45-member UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) over the authorities' rejection of women's rights and violent crackdown on demonstrations, cites the source.
The United States and Albania will handle an unofficial UN Security Council meeting this Wednesday, focusing attention on demonstrations in Tehran prompted by the death of a young woman in police detention. This same session intends to explore ways to encourage reliable investigations into Iranian human rights violations.
Iranians accused the United States and its allies of misusing their UN forum, furthering their policy objectives, and prompting nations not to attend the conference. Iran questioned what right the US has to boot it out of the UN rights body and contested its credibility.
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