China and Russia voted to keep Iran part of the U.N.'s premier governing body on women's empowerment and gender equality, despite the ongoing unrest in Iran.
Women gather with portraits showing the faces of soldiers killed in the 1980s Iran-Iraq war during a pro-government vigil outside the United Nations mission headquarters in Tehran on December 13, 2022. The United Nations voted to oust Iran from the 2022-2026 Commission on the Status of Women amidst the protests in Iran following Mahsa Amini's death in September.
Last month, China joined five other nations in voting against the creation of a new fact-finding mission investigating the alleged human rights violations in Iran, while Russia claimed the mission to be"illegitimate." Russia cannot currently vote in the U.N. Human Rights Council as it was suspended earlier this year for its invasion of Ukraine.that the two nations are facing growing incentives to align with Iran as each is riddled with its own problems at home.
"As China's internal worsens due to the unrest over COVID-19 restrictions and economic slowdown, the more Beijing values external sources of validation for its legitimacy," Timothy Heath, a senior international defense researcher at the RAND Corporation, told"Partnership with Iran and Russia offers a weakened Beijing political support that can help offset some of the decline in legitimacy inflicted by the government's mishandling of the COVID-19 situation," he said.
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