A German-Iranian national and longtime US resident has been executed in Iran after being convicted of terrorism offences, as reported by Iranian state media citing the country’s judiciary-affiliated Mizan news agency.
Jamshid Sharmahd was executed on Monday morning for “planning and orchestrating a series of terrorist acts,” according to state-run IRNA and Press TV.
Sharmahd was arrested in 2020 by Iranian authorities who alleged that he led a group responsible for a deadly 2008 bombing in the city of Shiraz, as per state-run news agencies ISNA and IRNA.
In 2022, he was sentenced to death for “corruption on Earth,” a move that has drawn widespread condemnation from human rights organizations and Western governments. Amnesty International criticized the trial as “grossly unfair.”
Efforts to obtain a comment from the German Foreign Office on this matter are currently underway.
