Top Iranian official calls for Israel to be kicked out of UN women’s rights conference

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A top Iranian official on Monday demanded that Israel be expelled from the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women for its ongoing offensive in the Gaza Strip.

Speaking at the commission’s 68th annual gathering, Iranian Vice President for Women and Family Affairs Ensieh Khazali criticized Israel for its response to the Oct. 7 massacre, when Hamas militants stormed into Israel, killed 1,200 civilians, and injured hundreds of others.

Khazali cited figures from Gaza’s Hamas-run Health Ministry that Israel has killed more than 30,000 people since Oct. 7. She alleged that Israel’s actions constituted a "genocide."

"On behalf of the powerful women of Iran, and in one voice with the resistant and pacifist women, I urge a revocation of the membership of the terrorist Israeli regime to this commission," she said.

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Khazali then pivoted to the status of women in Iran. She argued that Iran had made "rapid progress" since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, when the decades-long monarchy of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was overthrown, leading to the formation of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Among the changes implemented were mandating that women wear the hijab in public.

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