GENEVA: The US-Iran framework deal agreed this week to end the Middle East war largely fails to address the situation of long-suffering Iranians, United Nations rights experts said Friday.
The memorandum of understanding signed this week by US President Donald Trump and his Iranian counterpart Masoud Pezeshkian aims to end the war sparked on February 28 by the US-Israeli strikes that killed supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
A group of 18 independent UN rights experts said they welcomed the deal, but their statement 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,” they pointed out.
“The Iranian people — who have suffered enormously from both external military aggression and internal repression — are barely visible in this framework.”
