AFPIran has executed German-Iranian dissident Jamshid Sharmahd, following his conviction for “main terror operations”, state media is reporting.
Sharmahd was sentenced to loss of life final yr for “corruption on Earth”, having been accused of main a US-based pro-monarchist group.
He had denied the costs, together with his household sustaining he was solely a spokesman.
Germany’s overseas minister stated Berlin had repeatedly warned Tehran the execution of a German citizen would “have severe penalties”.
“The killing of Jamshid Sharmahd reveals what sort of inhumane regime guidelines (in Iran),” Annalena Baerbock posted on X.
The German ambassador met with the Iranian overseas minister in Tehran on Tuesday and “protested most strongly” to the execution, the German Overseas Workplace stated.
The Iranian chargé d’affaires was summoned over the matter, it added.
Human rights organisations have condemned the execution of Sharmahd, who lived within the US.
“The whole course of, together with his arrest, conviction, and execution, constitutes a severe violation of worldwide regulation,” stated Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, director of the Norway-based Iran Human Rights group.
Sharmahd is believed to have been kidnapped by Iranian brokers in Dubai in 2020 after which forcibly taken to Iran by way of Oman.
In August 2020, Iran’s intelligence ministry introduced his arrest following a “complicated operation”, with out offering any particulars.
One other human rights group, Amnesty Worldwide, has claimed Sharmahd was pressured to admit and that he had informed his household he had been tortured in detention.
It stated Sharmahd had created a web site to publish statements from the Kingdom Meeting of Iran, together with claims of explosions inside Iran.
The little-known US-based group, also referred to as Tondar (Persian for Thunder), seeks to revive the monarchy overthrown within the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Nevertheless, Iranian authorities stated he was Tondar’s chief and had “deliberate 23 terror assaults”, of which “5 have been profitable”, together with the 2008 bombing of a mosque in Shiraz in that killed 14 folks.
They revealed a video wherein he appeared blindfolded and confessed to varied crimes.
Sharmahd was sentenced to loss of life in February final yr.
‘Message of terror’
Sharmahd’s daughter, Gazelle, later referred to as on German prosecutors to analyze the Iranian judiciary’s alleged mistreatment of her father.
“They’re killing him softly in solitary confinement on this loss of life cell,” she informed the BBC in July 2023, after he had been allowed to name his household for the primary time in two years.
However she added: “They need a public execution for my dad, to ship out this message of terror: that anyone who speaks out in opposition to the regime, we will do that to you.”
He was executed on Sunday, after approval from the Supreme Courtroom, the Iranian judiciary’s Mizan web site stated on Monday.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz referred to as the execution a “scandal” and stated that “Jamshid Sharmahd didn’t even obtain the chance to defend himself in opposition to the costs on the trial”.