Tehran [Iran], October 29 (ANI): Iranian state media has reported that German-Iranian national Jamishid Sharmahd, convicted the previous year, has been executed. The execution took place on Monday morning, as per state news agency IRNA, which described the 69-year-old as an "Israeli-linked spy and saboteur."
Sharmahd, a US resident, was sentenced to death in February 2023 after being convicted by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Court on charges linked to his involvement in a 2008 attack against a religious congregation center in the Iranian city of Shiraz, Fars Province, that killed 14 people and injured 200 others. Iran's Supreme Court upheld the death sentence in April, which was handed down on charges of "corruption on earth" for planning and orchestrating a series of terrorist acts against the Islamic Republic, according to IRNA.
Tehran accused Sharmahd of being the "ringleader of the terrorist Tondar group," alleging that he had planned numerous terrorist operations against Iran at the behest of "Western, American, and child-killing Zionist spy organizations." Iranian Judiciary's Mizan news agency cited a statement from the Tehran Prosecutor-General's Office on Monday, stating, "At the behest of his masters in Western intelligence agencies, Sharmahd has for years designed numerous terrorist operations against the Islamic Republic of Iran," as reported by state media Press TV.
Sharmahd was believed to have been kidnapped in Dubai and subsequently detained in Iran.
His daughter, Gazelle, posted on Instagram on Monday, accusing the German and US governments of failing her father and describing his reported death as "apparently retaliation for Israeli strikes on the regime," CNN reported. Israel conducted multiple strikes on Iran on October 26 in retaliation for Iran's earlier attack on it this month.
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock condemned "the murder" of dual national Sharmahd "in the strongest possible terms." She stated, "Jamshid Sharmahd has been kidnapped from Dubai to Iran, held for years without a fair trial, and has now been killed," adding that the German Embassy in Tehran and her ministry had been working hard on his case, including sending high-ranking delegations to Tehran. "We made it clear to Tehran time and again that executing a German national would have serious consequences," she said in an online post.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz also condemned Sharmahd's execution on X, calling it "a scandal." The United States State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller stated that the US condemned Iran's execution of Jamishid Sharmahd, labeling it "the latest case in the regime's history of transnational repression and disregard for human rights." He added, "We stand with Germany, the Sharmahd family, and the international community to hold the regime accountable."
The United States Office of the Special Envoy for Iran characterized Sharmahd's "kidnapping and rendition, as well as the sham trial and reports of torture, as reprehensible."
(ANI)