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Author: Vijeta Uniyal

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Vijeta Uniyal

Vijeta Uniyal is an Indian journalist based in Germany. He is Senior Distinguished Fellow at the Gatestone Institute.

Iran, one of the world's leading violator of women's and human rights, has been elected to the United Nation's Commission on the Status of Women. The UN forum, which purports to advance "gender equality and the empowerment of women" across the globe, includes leading human rights abusers such as China, Cuba, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia.

China is considering sending troops to Afghanistan after the planned U.S. military withdrawal in coming month. "China may send peacekeeping force to Afghanistan after US troops leave," the Hong Kong daily South China Morning Post reported Friday, citing senior Chinese national security experts.

Iran's state-run TV network censored a British soccer Premier League match to comply with the regime's Islamic sharia law. The live telecast was interrupted more than 100 times during the 90 minutes game to prevent showing a female referee dressed in customary black soccer shorts, newspaper reports say.

A spy ship linked to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) suffered an explosion in the Red Sea, the Iranian state media confirmed on Wednesday. The vessel, which was acting as a base for the IRGC, went up in flames as explosive mines hit its hull, the Iranian state-run TV reported.