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A German-Iranian who had lived in the United States for many years was executed in Iran after being found guilty of terrorism, Iranian state media reported, citing the country’s judicial Mizan news agency.
State-run IRNA and Press TV reported that death row inmate Jamshid Sharmahad, 69, was executed on Monday morning for “planning and organizing a series of terrorist acts.” His execution sparked condemnation from the United States and Germany.
Sharmahad’s daughter Gazelle has repeatedly said her father is innocent and was subjected to a sham trial because of his political activities and criticism of the Islamic Republic.
Sharmad was arrested by Iranian authorities in 2020 for allegedly leading a group accused of the deadly 2008 Shiraz bombing, according to state news agencies ISNA and IRNA.
He was sentenced to death in 2022 for “corruption of the planet”, sparking widespread condemnation from human rights groups and Western governments.
“He was sentenced to death after a legal process that was widely criticized as a sham trial,” Vedant Patel, the US State Department’s chief deputy spokesperson, said at a briefing last fall. Amnesty International also called the trial “grossly unfair”.
Following news of his execution, German Foreign Minister Annalena Verbock said the “murder” of Sharmahad showed that the Iranian government was an “inhumane regime” that “uses death as a weapon”. said.
Mr Burbock said the execution would have “serious consequences”.
The U.S. Office of the Special Envoy to Iran said it was investigating reports of Sharmahad’s execution, calling his killing “the latest abomination in the regime’s long history of cross-border repression and accelerating the rate of executions.” It becomes an act.”
Sharmahd’s “reports of kidnapping and extradition, sham trials and torture are condemnable”, the envoy’s office added.
U.S. Deputy Special Envoy Abram Paley met with Sharmahad’s family last year to discuss his imprisonment and death sentence.
