German-Iranian sentenced to death in Tehran

A revolutionary court in Tehran makes the 67-year-old German-Iranian Jamshid Sharmahd is responsible, among other things, for a terrorist attack, such as the Iranian justice portal misan announced Tuesday. Against the judgement supreme appeal to the Court of Justice.

The activist Sharmahd was reportedly arrested by the Iranian secret service in Dubai in the summer of 2020 and taken to Iran. He has been imprisoned in Tehran ever since. Before that, Scharmahd lived in the United States for many years. His family and human rights organizations have previously denied allegations against him.

Justice accuses him of involvement in the attack

Sharmahd was involved with the exile opposition group in the US «tondar» (Donner), who argues for a return of the monarchy. The Iranian judiciary holds the organization responsible for a 2008 attack on a mosque in the city of Shiraz that killed several people. Three men have already been executed for it.

As an engineer and IT expert, Scharmahd also took part in a radio program of the group in exile. In 2019, the group’s website, which has since been taken down but is accessible in archive form, said the radio show aired content on politics and history, as well as instructions on how to resist. tondar denounced the persecution of its members by the Islamic Republic.

He gets consular Assistance?

It is unclear whether Scharmahd consular get help from the German embassy in Tehran. Iran legally treats dual nationals as Iranians. Amnesty International describes the trial as a show trial.

Several European citizens are currently being held in Iran, many of whom also hold Iranian nationality. Critics accuse Iran of holding foreigners as political hostages. Tehran denies the allegations and usually justifies the arrests on espionage charges. (SDA/no)

Source: Blick