Questão jurídica principal
Whether Swiss law applied to the withdrawal of parental authority, or Iranian law under the bilateral settlement agreement.
Decisão extraída
Swiss law governed the child-protection measure; the Hague/children-protection convention and the Refugee Convention did not displace it, and the older settlement agreement yielded to the later treaty rules for refugees.
Fundamentação extraída
The children were habitually resident in Switzerland, so Swiss authorities had jurisdiction and had to apply domestic protective measures under the MSA. As recognized refugees, the family fell under the Refugee Convention, whose Article 12 points to the law of the domicile/residence state. The older Swiss-Iranian settlement agreement could not prevail over this later, refugee-specific rule.