A/RES/80/222 Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 58/21; 8 2. Notes the engagement by the Islamic Republic of Iran with human rights treaty bodies, including the submission of periodic reports to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and participation in the Committee’s review in August 2024, as well as its participation in the fourth cycle of the universal periodic review of the Human Rights Council; 3. Welcomes the establishment of the technical cooperation framework in September 2024 between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and notes constructive engagement with the Office on substantive issues; 4. Recognizes engagement by the Islamic Republic of Iran with select special procedure mandate holders, while noting the limited scope of such cooperation to date and reaffirming the importance of substantive engagement and full and unhindered cooperation, including access to the country, notably for the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran; 5. Notes the efforts of the Islamic Republic of Iran in hosting one of the largest refugee populations in the world, including approximately 3.49 million refugees, asylum-seekers and Afghans in protracted refugee-like situations according to figures reported by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, acknowledges efforts to provide them with access to basic services, in particular healthcare, temporary work permits and education for children, while also expressing serious concern about the withdrawal of temporary legal protections for Afghan refugees in the Islamic Republic of Iran, threats to their human rights, notably the human rights of Afghan women and girls, and increased limitation of basic services to undocumented Afghans, as well as the large-scale return and forced return of more than 1.65 million Afghans from the Islamic Republic of Iran in 2025, including those with valid documentation and unaccompanied children, putting returnees at serious risk of persecution, including torture or killing, especially women and girls who face acute challenges and are deprived of their full enjoyment of human rights due to the policies of the Taliban, and emphasizes that the removal must be conducted in accordance with international law and humanitarian standards, ensuring the dignity, safety and rights of those affected; 6. Also notes the readiness of the Iranian High Council for Human Rights and other Iranian officials to engage in bilateral dialogues on human rights, and calls upon them to increase such dialogues or resume those that have been paused; 7. Condemns in the strongest terms the alarming and significant increase in and the sustained and extensive use of the application of the death penalty by the Islamic Republic of Iran, in violation of its international obligations, including executions undertaken against persons on the basis of forced confessions, without fair trial and due process, and in secrecy or without prior notification to the prisoner’s family or legal counsel, which can lead to irreversible miscarriages of justice, reiterates the concern that a significant number of offences carrying the death penalty do not qualify as the most serious crimes, including drug-related offences, as well as other actions provided under the penal code of the Islamic Republic of Iran, including adultery, same-sex relations, apostasy, blasphemy and convictions for drinking alcohol, as well as crimes that are overly broad or vaguely defined, 9 which is in _______________ 8 9 2/10 A/80/349. See A/HRC/55/62 and A/HRC/55/67. 25-20984