BERLIN: Germany protested to Iran on Tuesday over the execution of Iranian German prisoner Jamshid Sharmahd, who lived within the US and was kidnapped in Dubai in 2020 by Iranian safety forces, and recalled its ambassador to Berlin for consultations.
The Overseas Ministry wrote on the social community X that Iran’s cost d’affaires in Berlin was summoned to listen to “our sharp protest” towards Tehran’s motion and added that it reserves the appropriate to take “additional measures.” It did not elaborate.
On the similar time, German Ambassador Markus Potzel “protested within the strongest phrases towards the homicide of Jamshid Sharmahd” to the Iranian international minister, it stated. German Overseas Minister Annalena Baerbock then recalled him to Berlin for consultations.
Sharmahd, 69, was put to loss of life in Iran on Monday on terrorism prices, the nation’s judiciary stated. That adopted a 2023 trial that Germany, the US and worldwide rights teams dismissed as a sham.
He was one in every of a number of Iranian dissidents overseas lately both tricked or kidnapped again to Iran as Tehran started lashing out after the collapse of its 2015 nuclear cope with world powers together with Germany.
Iran accused Sharmahd, who lived in Glendora, California, of planning a 2008 assault on a mosque that killed 14 folks – together with 5 girls and a toddler – and wounded over 200 others, in addition to plotting different assaults by means of the little-known Kingdom Meeting of Iran and its Tondar militant wing.
Iran additionally accused Sharmahd of “disclosing categorised info” on missile websites of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard throughout a tv program in 2017.
His household disputed the allegations and had labored for years to see him freed.
Sharmahd had been in Dubai in 2020, attempting to journey to India for a enterprise deal involving his software program firm. He hoped to get a connecting flight regardless of the coronavirus pandemic disrupting international journey.
Sharmahd’s household acquired their final message from him on July 28, 2020. It is unclear how the kidnapping occurred. However monitoring knowledge confirmed that Sharmahd’s cell phone traveled south from Dubai to town of Al Ain on July 29, crossing the border into Oman. On July 30, monitoring knowledge confirmed the cell phone traveled to the Omani port metropolis of Sohar, the place the sign stopped.
Two days later, Iran introduced it had captured Sharmahd in a “complicated operation.” The Intelligence Ministry printed {a photograph} of him blindfolded.
Germany expelled two Iranian diplomats in 2023 over Sharmahd’s loss of life sentence.
