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Iran peace deal must not come at the cost of human rights, warn UN experts
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Iran peace deal must not come at the cost of human rights, warn UN experts

June 19, 2026 Digest External News

News Digest: Automatically collected from relevant external sources. Not original Committee reporting or an official Committee position.

GENEVA – UN experts* today welcomed the signing of a 14-point Memorandum of Understanding between the United States and Iran but warned that any agreement that fails to address the human rights situation in Iran will be fundamentally incomplete. “The Memorandum focuses almost entirely on military withdrawal, the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, nuclear commitments, sanctions relief and a $300 billion reconstruction fund . The Iranian people — who have suffered enormously from both external military aggression and internal repression – are barely visible in this framework,” the experts…

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Source: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Originally published 19 June 2026. This page reproduces only a short excerpt; the complete text remains on the official source website.

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