Berlin slams ‘inhumane’ Tehran for executing German-Iranian Jamshid Sharmahd

The family had waged a long campaign for his life to be spared

Slammed by Berlin as an "inhumane regime", Iran on Monday executed dual German-Iranian national Jamshid Sharmahd after detaining him since 2020, when he was captured while travelling through the United Arab Emirates, according to his family. He had been convicted in the 2008 bombing of a mosque in Shiraz.

Iran on Monday executed 69-year-old German-Iranian Jamshid Sharmahd after years in captivity, media in the Islamic Republic said, sparking outrage in Germany and beyond.

Berlin warned of "serious consequences" for Iran's "inhumane regime", while a Norway-based human rights group labelled the execution the "extrajudicial killing of a hostage".

Sharmahd, a German citizen of Iranian descent and a US resident, was seized by Iranian authorities in 2020 while travelling through the United Arab Emirates, according to his family.

Iran, which does not recognise dual citizenship, announced his arrest after a "complex operation", without specifying how, where or when he was seized.

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His family have long maintained that Sharmahd was innocent.


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