Over 200 Iranian lawmakers have condemned the United Nations for removing Saudi Arabia from a blacklist for overwhelmingly violating children’s rights in Yemen, a member of the Parliament’s Presiding Board says.

“In his recent move, the United Nations Secretary General [Ban Ki-moon] dropped the name of the Al Saud regime from the list of countries which are engaged in the killing of innocent Yemeni children and has joined hands with the so-called human right advocates whose hands are stained with the blood of thousands of innocent and homeless [children],” Gholam Reza Kateb read a statement issued by 202 Iranian legislators on Tuesday.

Instead of defending nations and protecting the rights of the oppressed nations, the UN "has turned into a means of abuse for certain arrogant countries and superpowers," the statement added.

On June 6, the UN dropped Saudi Arabia from its annual blacklist, only one week after it announced the blacklisting of Riyadh.

According to some diplomatic sources, Saudi Arabia and its allies have threatened to cut off funding to UN programs if the body keeps the kingdom in the blacklist.

The sources said that the UN chief’s office was bombarded with calls from foreign ministers of the Persian Gulf littoral states, as well as ministers from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), after the blacklisting was announced.

The UN move also contradicted its recently released report that holds Riyadh responsible for 60 percent of child deaths and injuries in Yemen last Year.

The report, which was released on Tuesday, attributed 510 child deaths and 667 injuries to Saudi aggression in Yemen.

More than 9,400 people have been killed and at least 16,000 others injured in Yemen since last March, when Saudi Arabia launched its military aggression against the country.

Riyadh has been backed by Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Sudan, Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain in the military campaign.