Question juridique clé
Whether the Swiss-Iranian 1934 settlement agreement applied to the spouses' divorce despite the wife's Swiss nationality
Solution extraite
The agreement applies in Swiss divorce cases only where both spouses have exclusively Iranian nationality; it did not apply here.
Motifs extraits
The treaty's purpose is to protect Swiss and Iranian nationals in the other state, not to displace the forum state's own law for its own nationals. In mixed-nationality cases, the treaty does not govern by interpretation of its text and purpose.