The daughter of a California resident and dual German-Iranian citizen who was executed by Tehran on Monday accused the Biden-Harris administration and the German government of incompetence to save him.
Ghazel Sharmahad wore all black on Monday night, her hair tied back like female protesters in Iran’s Women, Life, Freedom movement, and quietly looked at her father, Jamshid. -Posted a video of himself mourning Sharmahad’s death.
Ms. Gazelle criticized the silence of President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, calling their governments “incompetent and corrupt.”
Ghazel Sharmahad mourned the death of her father, Jamshid Sharmahad, a German-Iranian dissident. X / @GazelleSharmahd California resident Jamshid Sharmahd was executed by Iran on terrorism charges, but his family disputes this. Mizan News Agency/AFP (via Getty Images)
“What were they (#US and #Germans) doing for 4 years when German-Americans were kidnapped in Dubai and forcibly taken to Iran?” Gazelle posted on X.
“An American-German was brutally and shamelessly kidnapped, tortured, held hostage for four years, and (if confirmed) murdered by the world’s largest terrorist organization, apparently in retaliation for an Israeli attack on the regime. So this is immediate and there are clear and serious consequences for them now,” she added.
Iranian authorities say Jamshid, a dissident who lived with his family in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendora, will be tried by the Islamic Republic for planning an attack on a mosque in 2008 that killed 14 people and injured more than 200. He was found guilty and executed on Monday morning. Amnesty International criticized it as a fake.
Jamshid Sharmahad is seen with his family. They have lived in California for over 20 years. By: Gazelle Sharmahd, RN, BSN
Ghazel and his family have long disputed the Iranian government’s claims and spent years advocating for Jamshid’s release after he was abducted during a flight connection in Dubai in 2020.
He was excluded from a 2023 deal that would have given Tehran $6 billion (currently frozen) in exchange for five prisoners because he was not a U.S. citizen despite having lived in the United States for 20 years. Worth noting.
Her heartbroken daughter has long argued that her father, a green card holder, should have been included in the agreement surrounding the Levinson Act, named after former FBI agent Robert Levinson, who disappeared in Iran. This law protects U.S. citizens and detained Americans. Hostages overseas.
Ghazel and her brother Shayan (left) met with Abram Paley, the US deputy special envoy for Iran, last year and advocated for their father’s release. X/@USEnvoyIran
Ghazell also blamed her father’s death on Abram Paley, the US envoy to Iran who met with her last year and is investigating Jamshid’s death.
“You left him to die, while the Biden-Harris administration handed over $6 billion to his captors and, if confirmed, his killers,” Gazelle wrote.
“We do not want any statement or condolence that does not include the immediate return of our father (dead or alive) and severe punishment for the Islamic regime’s killers,” she added.
In addition to the terrorism charges, Tehran has also committed several other attacks through the little-known Royal Iranian Parliament (a rebel group seeking to restore the monarchy overthrown by the Islamic Revolution in 1979) and its Tondar militant group. accused Jamshid of planning a
Iran provided no evidence of its claims against Jamshid, who was denied the right to defend himself in court.
Jamshid Sharmahad was kidnapped during a connecting flight in Dubai in 2020. AFP (via Getty Images)
Paley said Jamshid’s execution “represents the latest abhorrent act in the regime’s long history of accelerating cross-border repression and executions.”
Scholz called the execution a “scandal” and German Foreign Minister Annalena Verbock threatened “serious consequences” for Jamshid’s death.
“We campaigned vigorously for Jamshid Sharmahd and sent teams of senior foreign ministry officials to Tehran on several occasions,” Baberbok said in a statement.
“The murder of Jamshid Sharmahd shows what kind of inhumane regime there is. A regime that uses death against young people, against its own citizens and against foreigners,” she added. Ta.
