Iran has no place in the UN Commission on the Status of Women, US Vice President Kamala Harris said on Wednesday, launching an initiative to cause her to leave this body.
Given the repression of the large demonstrations that followed the death on September 16 of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman, the United States will work “with (its) partners to remove Iran” from this United Nations Commission whose members are elected for four years, Harris said in a statement Wednesday.
“By denying women’s rights and carrying out such a brutal crackdown on its own people, Iran has shown that it has no place on this commission,” the US vice president added.
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“The mere presence of Iran discredits (for its members) the meaning of joining it and its work,” he insisted.
Iran has been rocked by protests since the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, arrested three days earlier by police for allegedly violating the Islamic Republic’s strict dress code of wearing a headscarf.
The repression of these demonstrations, unprecedented in its scale and nature since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, left dozens dead, according to NGOs. The United States and the European Union have already taken new sanctions against the Tehran regime following this crackdown.
Source: BFM TV
