Tehran executes German-Iranian Jamshid Sharmahd over ‘terror’ conviction
Al Jazeera
Sharmahd, a German citizen who holds US residency, was sentenced to death in 2023 for ‘leading terror operations’.
A German citizen of Iranian descent, who was convicted of ‘leading terrorist operations’, has been executed in Iran, according to the Iranian state media.
“After going through the judicial process and the final approval of the court decision by the Supreme Court, the death sentence of Jamshid Sharmahd … was carried out this morning,” the news site Mizan said on Monday.
Mizan described Sharmahd as “a criminal terrorist” who “was hosted by American and European countries and was operating under the complex protection of their intelligence services”.
Sharmahd, who also holds United States residency, was sentenced to death in 2023 on charges of “corruption on earth”, a capital offence under Iran’s Islamic laws. He was convicted of heading a pro-monarchist group accused of a deadly 2008 bombing and planning other attacks in the country.
Germany’s foreign minister on Monday strongly condemned Iran’s “inhumane regime” for the execution of the 69-year-old German citizen.
