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Brussels – EU Chief Diplomat Josep Borrell has strongly condemned the execution of the German-Iranian twin citizen Djamshid Sharmahd. “The EU strongly opposes the dying penalty always and below all circumstances,” Borrell wrote on the platform X. “We share the ache of the household and kin and specific our solidarity with the German authorities, with whom we’re in touch,” he continued. The EU is contemplating “measures” in response to the execution, he wrote additional, with out specifying particulars.
The Iranian judiciary introduced Sharmahd’s execution on Monday night. Within the spring of 2023, he had been sentenced to dying in a controversial trial on terror fees. Relations had vehemently rejected the accusations.
Germany’s Chancellor calls execution a scandal
Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz and the German Overseas Minister Annalena Baerbock had already sharply condemned the execution on Monday. Scholz known as it a scandal. Baerbock declared the killing “as soon as once more reveals what a contemptuous regime guidelines in Tehran.” Tehran has been repeatedly made unambiguously clear “that the execution of a German citizen could have severe penalties.”
The primary penalties have now been drawn. The chargé d’affaires of the embassy was knowledgeable of the German authorities’s displeasure on the Overseas Workplace. “We have now conveyed our sturdy protest in opposition to the actions of the Iranian regime & reserve the correct to additional measures,” the ministry wrote on the platform X.
There’s at present no Iranian ambassador in Berlin. The earlier ambassador has left as a part of an everyday employees rotation and a successor has not but arrived. After Sharmahd’s killing, it’s thought-about unlikely {that a} new ambassador will likely be despatched quickly.
Grew up in Germany, lived within the USA for years
Sharmahd was born in Tehran in 1955, got here to Germany on the age of seven, and grew up in Germany, the place he ran a pc retailer in Hanover for years. In 2003, he lastly moved to California within the USA, the place he was politically energetic. Within the USA, Sharmahd was energetic within the Iranian exile opposition group “Tondar” (Thunder). The Iranian management accuses the monarchist group of being chargeable for an assault within the million-city Shiraz in 2008, which resulted in a number of fatalities. The allegations can’t be independently verified – survivors had demanded Sharmahd’s execution.
In the summertime of 2020, Sharmahd was kidnapped below mysterious circumstances from Dubai to Iran throughout a visit; a number of reviews communicate of a kidnapping by the Iranian intelligence service. Since then, he has been in solitary confinement. (October 29)
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