The push to remove Iran was initiated by the U.S. in November, after protests erupted across Iran following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of the "morality police."Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield told council members that Iran should be removed because "the Commission is the premier U.N. body for promoting gender equality and empowering women."The U.S. request is entirely illegal as the Council members are fully aware that there is no precedent in the Council's practice of terminating an elected member's participation in a functional Commission for any alleged reason, nor it is supported by the Council's rule of procedures," Iran's ambassador said at the meeting."We are here to address one lowest points of the U.N.'s institutionalized distortion: the fact that the worst women's rights abuser in the world can hold a leadership position regarding women's rights here at the U.N.," Israel's U.N.The U.K.'s Ambassador Barbara Woodward told delegates that Iran's treatment of women and girls is in conflict with Commission's work as the main U.N. body to deal with the promotion of gender equality."