German-Iranian dual national Jamshid Sharmahd executed in Iran

German-Iranian dual national Jamshid Sharmahd was executed in Iran on charges of “corruption on Earth” linked to a 2008 terror attack. The 69-year-old resided in California before he was kidnapped in Dubai in 2020.

Iran executes German-Iranian Jamshid Sharmahd
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German-Iranian dual national Jamshid Sharmahd was executed in Iran on charges of “corruption on Earth” linked to a 2008 terror attack. Rights group Amnesty International said that his confessions were forced.

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Sharmahd sits in an Iranian courtroom
Sharmahd is believed to have been abducted by Iranian security forces in Dubai in 2020Image: Koosha Falahi/Mizan/dpa/picture alliance
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Iranian state media reported on Monday that Jamshid Sharmahd had been executed after he was convicted last year.

Sharmahd was sentenced to death in February 2023 following a conviction by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Court on charges linked to his involvement in a deadly 2008 attack on a mosque in Shiraz that killed 14 people.

However, the formal conviction in Iran was for the much more vague Iranian criminal offense of “corruption on Earth,” a catch-all phrase the Islamic regime uses for an array of purported crimes, often related to religious values.

Iranian media including the legal news site Mizan reported that the execution took place on Monday morning.

Iran had also accused him of being in contact with “FBI and CIA officers” and of having “attempted to contact Israeli Mossad agents.

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