The divide between Washington and Tehran is growing as the White House announced on Wednesday that it would seek Iran’s removal from a key United Nations council in response to a crackdown against women’s rights protesters in the country.
Vice President Kamala Harris said on Twitter that the Biden administration would seek that Iran be ousted from the UN Commission on the Status of Women, the body’s leading watchdog on women’s rights. It’s a move that will have little global impact beyond embarrassing the Iranian government at a time when it appears to be at its least stable point in recent memory and is grappling with growing protests spearheaded by younger Iranians around the country.
