By Patrick Goodenough
| May 3, 2021 | 4:34am EDT
Young Iranian women in Tehran. (Photo by Franco Czerny/Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) – The Biden administration, which has pledged to put human rights at the center of its foreign policy, appears reluctant to speak out unequivocally against Iran’s recent election to the U.N. agency “dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women.”
Although the U.S. was praised earlier for pushing for a recorded vote on the matter – rather than allow Iran’s candidacy for the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) to be waved through “by acclamation” – the fact the State Department won’t directly criticize the Iran’s elevation to the body is raising eyebrows.