Iranian authorities on Monday executed German-Iranian Jamshid Sharmahd, who had been detained since 2020, the judiciary’s Mizan web site mentioned.
“After going by the judicial course of and the ultimate approval of the courtroom resolution by the Supreme Courtroom, the demise sentence of Jamshid Sharmahd… was carried out this morning,” the web site mentioned, following Sharmahd’s conviction for “corruption on earth”.
Sharmahd, a German citizen of Iranian descent and US resident, was seized by Iranian authorities in 2020 whereas travelling by the United Arab Emirates, in accordance with his household.
Iran, which doesn’t recognise twin citizenship, introduced his arrest after a “advanced operation”, with out specifying how, the place or when he was seized.
Sharmahd, 69, was sentenced to demise in February 2023 for the capital offence of “corruption on earth”, a sentence later confirmed by the Supreme Courtroom within the Islamic republic.
He had been convicted of taking part in a job in a 2008 mosque bombing within the southern metropolis of Shiraz, during which 14 folks had been killed and 300 wounded.
Sharmahd was additionally accused of main the Tondar group, “thunder” in Persian, also called the Kingdom Meeting of Iran, which goals to topple the Islamic republic. Iran lessons it as a terrorist organisation.
He grew up in an Iranian-German household and moved to California in 2003, the place he was accused of constructing statements each hostile to Iran and Islam on satellite tv for pc tv channels.
Mizan mentioned Sharmahd was “a felony terrorist” who “was hosted by the USA in addition to European international locations and was working underneath the advanced safety of their intelligence companies”.
In Might 2023, Iran hanged Swedish-Iranian dissident Habib Chaab, who had been held in jail since October 2020 after he vanished throughout a go to to Turkey earlier than happening trial in Tehran.
He was additionally convicted of “corruption on earth” for main Harakat al-Nidal, which can be labelled a terrorist organisation by Tehran.
In January 2023, Alireza Akbari, a former Iranian official with British citizenship, was hanged after being convicted of spying for the UK.
Iran carries out the second highest variety of executions worldwide per yr after China, in accordance with human rights teams together with Amnesty Worldwide.
A number of different Europeans are nonetheless being held in Iran together with at the very least three French residents.
