Washington due to recent riots in Tehran has found another pretext to exert more pressure against the Islamic Republic of Iran as the U.S. officials are fanning the flame of the riots in Iran either directly or indirectly through its allies.

Women in Iran has turned into a new tool for the U.S. to increase its pressure on Iran as Tehran does now give in the excessive demands of Washington and its allies, and recent incidents in Iran have provided an opportunity for the West to pursue its ill intentions.

The U.S. and its allies’ decision to oust Iran from the UN women commission have even seen backlashes from some European countries as they are not ready to follow the U.S. plot.

The Netherlands is one of them which has censured the United States-led political attempt to remove Iran from the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), emphasizing that the world body should be a venue for all members of the international community to arrive at a consensus.

Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Wopke Hoekstra said the CSW, dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women, is a place for all UN member states, particularly those whose policies are less aligned with the rest, to work together and build a consensus.

Australia, Canada, England, Guatemala and New Zealand have already announced their support for Washington’s push to oust the Islamic Republic of Iran from the 45-member commission.

On Tuesday, Iran’s High Council for Human Rights denounced a meddlesome and politically-motivated statement issued by the United States and eight other countries over Iranian women’s access to online platforms, saying it is definitely “doomed to failure.”

The rights council issued a statement on Tuesday in reaction to a joint statement that was released last Thursday by the governments of the United States, Australia, Canada, Chile, Iceland, New Zealand, the Republic of Korea, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

“The political and instrumental approach of Western countries to human rights, including rights of women and girls, which only aims to exert pressure on independent countries, is doomed to failure,” the council said.

It is a bitter irony that the U.S. foreign secretary and some of his Western counterparts accuse Iran of violating the rights of women and girls in a meddlesome joint statement and with an insolent tone while claiming to defend and support women’s rights, it added.

According to the statement, some countries look at women and their rights only as a means to achieve their own political interests and preferences and impose their own incorrect perception of women and women’s rights on other nations and cultures.

These states do not hesitate to victimize women and girls and violate all their rights, it said.

It emphasized that various reports and research conducted by Western institutions have shown that the rights of women and girls are violated in Western states, particularly the U.S., more than in other parts of the world.

The Iranian body said the degradation of women’s dignity and identity and turning them into means of exploitation, extreme violence and obvious discrimination against women and girls, the very high number of female prisoners, the forced separation of refugee mothers from their children as well as a discriminatory view and torture of black, colored and migrant women and girls are only among examples of arrogant states’ approaches to the issue.

It is better for Western countries to adopt new strategies in their states to observe the rights of women and girls if they are really concerned about the issue, it added.

In their joint statement, the U.S. and eight other countries claimed that the Iranian women and girls are facing “extreme violence” ever since riots broke out in the wake of the tragic death of 22-year-old woman Mahsa Amini in mid-September.

The Iranian rights body said the U.S. and Western states have proved that they do not care about the rights of women and girls in Iran at all as they have fully supported terror attacks against thousands of Iranian women, men and children, as well as their killing, particularly during Iraq’s war against Iran in 1980s, when they imposed oppressive and illegal sanctions with adverse consequences on health and welfare and prevented the presence of successful Iranian women and girls in global sports and scientific fields.

It also called on Western states to abandon unilateral and oppressive sanctions against women, girls and children instead of doing a political show.

The West has always used women, children, labor and human rights as good tools for increasing pressures on countries which do not follow their policies while the West is itself one of the main violators of all of those human issues.

Of course Iranians and independent nations do not expect the UN to resist against the West because this international body mostly follows the policies of the West or what the West dictates but we hope this international body at least listen to countries like the Netherlands which is from the Western bloc and to reject any decision from the U.S. to oust Iran from the CSW. This is a real acid test for impartiality of the UN, but the U.S. should know that its plots are unable to stop the Islamic Republic of Iran from marching on road to progress and prosperity.

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Ahmed Hassan al-Amir said on Monday that the objective of the two adversaries was to eliminate the Balhaf gas liquefaction and LNG facilities and the export facilities of an eponymous industrial port town in the province.

He said intense artillery fire against the facilities on Sunday could confirm the plot to stop the production and export of gas in Yemen, Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah television network reported.

Saudi Arabia, backed by the United States and its other regional allies, not least the UAE, launched the devastating war on Yemen in March 2015, with the goal of reinstating the government of Yemen’s former President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi and crushing the popular Houthi Ansarullah movement.

Having failed to fulfill the objective, the campaign has left tens of thousands of Yemenis dead, and displaced millions. It has also destroyed Yemen’s infrastructure and spread famine and infectious diseases nationwide.

Amir further said the establishment of Saudi and Emirati military bases in and around Balhaf could also lay bare the scheme to shut down Yemen’s ports.

Shabwa’s governor called for the anti-Yemen coalition to be held responsible for the destruction of gas facilities in Balhaf. He urged the people and tribes of the province to work for the expulsion of invaders and their mercenaries from the province.

With the all-out blockade on Yemen in place since the onset of the bloody war, the country is witnessing the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.

The tight siege, among others, has led to the closure of the Sana’a International Airport, the largest and most important airport in Yemen, and closed the Hudaydah port, which acts as a lifeline for the impoverished nation.

Last month, Yemen’s Ministry of Transportation said 80 percent of activities in ports had been halted because of the airstrikes.

The ministry also estimated the damage caused by direct attacks on port infrastructure and equipment at over $2 billion. The Land Transport Authority, it said, had suffered more than $208 million in damage.

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