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A woman walks past a billboard displaying Iran’s national flag at Enghelab Square in Tehran on 14 June 2026.

An organiser for the Iranian-New Zealander community says any peace deal with the Islamic Republic is unacceptable.

Mehrdad Soltanifar was hopeful the conflict between the US and Iran would lead to a regime change, but a peace deal announced on Monday has signalled an apparent end to the three-month war.

"Any agreement, any agreement, with the Islamic Republic feels like a slap in our face to all of us and the Iranian people," Soltanifar said.