The Iranian judiciary confirmed on Monday it had executed Jamshid Sharmahd, a German-Iranian nationwide and longtime California resident, years after he was kidnapped and brought captive for alleged “terrorism.”
Sharmahd was sentenced to loss of life in February 2023 in relation to the bombing of a mosque in 2008 – a declare Iranian courts by no means backed with significant proof and Sharmahd vehemently denied, the dissident outlet Iran Worldwide reported on Monday.
Sharmahd had reportedly been held captive after he was kidnapped throughout a layover in Dubai in 2020 whereas on a enterprise journey.
“Undoubtedly, the divine promise concerning the supporters of terrorism will probably be fulfilled, and it is a particular promise,” the judiciary reportedly mentioned within the announcement of Sharmahd’s execution.
Within the judiciary’s announcement of Sharmahd’s execution, he was accused of being “below orders from masters in Western intelligence companies, the USA and the child-killing Zionist regime.”
Amnesty Worldwide, in its profile of Sharmahd as a political prisoner, famous that the California resident managed a dissident web site that opposed Iran’s Islamist terror regime, possible attracting Tehran’s legal conduct. The human rights group described the web site, Tondar:
Jamshid Sharmahd hosted its radio and video broadcasts, together with by studying out the web site’s content material, a few of which was posted anonymously. The web site included statements from the Kingdom Meeting of Iran claiming accountability for explosions inside Iran. Jamshid Sharmahd has repeatedly denied his involvement within the violent acts attributed to him by the authorities.
Sharmahd’s daughter, Gazelle, beforehand informed Fox Information in an interview in August 2023, that her father had belonged “to a household of 4 technology round him of U.S. citizenship,” including that he was a “law-abiding resident” who would have had United States citizenship if it weren’t “for the terrorists.”
“My dad selected the USA as his residence, labored arduous, adopted all the principles, belongs to a household of 4 generations round him of U.S. citizenship, lived right here for 20 years as a tax-paying, law-abiding resident and would have already got his citizenship if it wasn’t for the terrorists and qualifies as a U.S. nationwide below the Levinson regulation,” Gazelle informed the outlet.
The Robert Levinson Hostage Restoration and Hostage-Taking Accountability Act defines a “United States nationwide” as being “a lawful everlasting resident alien with vital ties to the USA,” in accordance with the invoice’s textual content.
On December 27, 2020, the Levinson Act was signed into regulation “as a part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 (P.L. 116-260), codies key parts of hostage and wrongful detention coverage and supplies a framework for the Secretary of State to assessment circumstances and make wrongful detention determinations the place acceptable,” in accordance with the Division of State’s web site.
