{"id":119585,"date":"2024-10-29T06:18:47","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T23:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=119585"},"modified":"2024-10-29T06:18:47","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T23:18:47","slug":"iran-executes-german-iranian-jamshid-sharmahd-dw-10-28-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=119585","title":{"rendered":"Iran executes German-Iranian Jamshid Sharmahd \u2013 DW \u2013 10\/28\/2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Iranian state media reported\u00a0that <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/jamshid-sharmahd\/t-65993054\">Jamshid Sharmahd<\/a>\u00a0was executed on Monday after being convicted\u00a0last year.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sharmahd was sentenced to death in February 2023 <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/german-iranian-national-sentenced-to-death-in-tehran\/a-64773532\">following a conviction by Iran&#8217;s Islamic Revolutionary Court<\/a> on charges linked to his involvement in a deadly 2008 attack on a mosque in Shiraz that killed 14 people.<\/p>\n<p>However, the formal conviction in Iran was for the much more vague Iranian criminal offense of spreading &#8220;corruption on Earth,&#8221; a catch-all phrase the Islamic regime uses for an array of purported crimes, often related to religious values.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian media including the legal news site Mizan reported that the execution took place on Monday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u00a0had also accused him of being in contact with &#8220;FBI and CIA officers&#8221; and of having &#8220;attempted to contact Israeli Mossad agents.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span data-slot-id=\"Article_InContent-1\" class=\"rich-text-ad\"\/><\/p>\n<h2>California resident likely seized in Dubai in 2020<\/h2>\n<p>Tehran had accused Sharmahd of being the &#8220;ringleader of the terrorist Tondar group, who directed armed and terrorist acts in Iran from America.&#8221; The little-known Tondar group, the armed wing of the\u00a0&#8220;Kingdom Assembly of Iran,&#8221; is\u00a0based in California and\u00a0says it seeks to restore Iran&#8217;s monarchy that was overthrown by the 1979 Islamic revolution.<\/p>\n<p>Before his kidnapping, believed to have taken place in Dubai, and subsequent detention in Iran, the 69-year old Sharmahd had\u00a0been residing in California.<\/p>\n<p>His daughter, Gazelle, <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/daughter-urges-berlin-to-prevent-german-iranians-execution\/a-64804996\">had spearheaded the fight calling for him to be spared execution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Germany, the EU and others\u00a0had also called for the death sentence to be lifted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think words can change a terrorist regime,&#8221; Gazelle\u00a0Sharmahd told DW soon after her father&#8217;s conviction in 2023. &#8220;This is a regime that kidnaps people like my Dad from outside of Iran, takes them over there. &#8230; This terrorist regime will not respond to any kind of talks or diplomacy. We have seen this, unfortunately.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"vjs-wrapper embed big\">\n<h2 aria-label=\"Embedded video \u2014 Daughter of German-Iranian sentenced to death speaks to DW\" class=\"headline\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewbox=\"0 0 20 20\"><g fill-rule=\"evenodd\"><path d=\"M14.114 7.599H13.5l.002 4.706h.601l4.582 3.25-.005-11.11zM11.084 4.444l-9.007.002-1.336.797.002 9.514 1.334.793 9.007.006 1.509-.799-.004-9.516z\"\/><\/g><\/svg>Daughter of German-Iranian sentenced to death speaks to DW<\/h2>\n<p><video id=\"video-65447496\" controls=\"\" playsinline=\"\" preload=\"none\" poster=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVR42mNkYAAAAAYAAjCB0C8AAAAASUVORK5CYII=\" data-id=\"65447496\" data-posterurl=\"https:\/\/tvdownloaddw-a.akamaihd.net\/stills\/images\/je\/je20230427_skypeLA01d_image_512x288_3.jpg\" data-duration=\"04:12\"><source src=\"https:\/\/hlsvod.dw.com\/i\/dwtv_video\/flv\/je\/je20230427_skypeLA01d_,AVC_480x270,AVC_512x288,AVC_640x360,AVC_960x540,AVC_1280x720,AVC_1920x1080,.mp4.csmil\/master.m3u8\" type=\"application\/x-mpegURL\"><source src=\"https:\/\/tvdownloaddw-a.akamaihd.net\/dwtv_video\/flv\/je\/je20230427_skypeLA01d_AVC_1920x1080.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><p class=\"vjs-no-js\">To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that <a href=\"https:\/\/videojs.com\/html5-video-support\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">supports HTML5 video<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/source><\/source><\/video><\/div>\n<p><a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/iran-confirms-death-sentence-of-german-dual-national\/a-65442960\">Sharmahd&#8217;s sentence was upheld by Iran&#8217;s highest court last October<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Berlin decries &#8216;murder&#8217; of\u00a0Sharmahd<\/h2>\n<p>German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock condemned &#8220;the murder&#8221; of the dual national &#8220;in the strongest possible terms.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jamshid Sharmahd has been kidnapped from Dubai to Iran, held for years without a fair trial and has now been killed,&#8221; she said, adding that the German Embassy in Tehran and her ministry have been working hard on\u00a0his case, including sending high-ranking delegations to Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We made it clear to Tehran time after time that executing a German national would have serious consequences,&#8221; she said in an online post, without specifying Germany&#8217;s next steps.<\/p>\n<p>German Chancellor Olaf Scholz also condemned the execution of Sharmahd &#8220;in the strongest terms,&#8221; calling it\u00a0&#8220;a scandal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jamshid Sharmahd was not even given the opportunity to defend himself in court against the accusations made against him,&#8221; Scholz wrote on X. &#8220;The German government has repeatedly and intensively supported Mr Sharmahd. My deepest sympathy goes out to his family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tweet embed\" data-twitter=\"true\" data-id=\"1851016454642049439\"\/>\n<p>Earlier on Monday, conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz called the execution a &#8220;heinous crime&#8221; and said the trial had been\u00a0a &#8220;mockery&#8221; of international legal standards.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Iranian regime has once again shown its inhumane character,&#8221; Merz said. &#8220;I call on the [German] federal government to respond decisively. <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/germanys-foreign-policy-a-tricky-balance-of-values-and-interests\/a-65527598\">The &#8216;quiet diplomacy&#8217; approach with Iran<\/a> has failed. The Iranian ambassador must be expelled. The downgrading of diplomatic relations to the charge d&#8217;affaires level is required.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Merz also appealed for Germany to seek tougher European sanctions on Iran, and said that Germany&#8217;s bilateral approach to Iran in recent years had been based on the idea of Tehran being cooperative: &#8220;This illusion should, at the latest, be shattered following the execution of a Germany citizen in an illegal process,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tweet embed\" data-twitter=\"true\" data-id=\"1850962724634681798\"\/>\n<h2>Amnesty International lamented &#8216;grossly unfair&#8217; trial<\/h2>\n<p>German Foreign Minister <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/germany-expels-2-iran-envoys-over-death-sentence\/a-64782456\">Annalena Baerbock last year called Sharmahd&#8217;s setence &#8220;absolutely unacceptable,&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0and also said he had not been given a fair trial.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rights NGO Amnesty International made similar complaints in reports on the case, calling the legal proceedings &#8220;grossly unfair.&#8221; <a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"external-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/documents\/mde13\/6642\/2023\/en\/\" title=\"External link \u2014 In a report on the original conviction last April\">In a report on the original conviction last April<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" viewbox=\"0 0 20 20\"><path d=\"M11.5 3.5 11.5 4.233C14.342 4.233 15.167 4.245 15.167 4.258L8.984 10.467 10.033 11.516C14.826 6.725 16.228 5.333 16.242 5.333L16.267 9 17.733 9 17.733 2.767 11.5 2.767 11.5 3.5M2.267 11 2.267 17.233 16.733 17.233 16.733 12 15.267 12 15.25 15.75 9.5 15.75 3.75 15.75 3.75 6.25 9.5 6.233 9.5 4.767 2.267 4.767 2.267 11 \"\/><\/svg><\/a>, Amnesty said Sharmahd was denied access to an independent lawyer of his own choosing and alleged that the state-appointed defense attorney&#8217;s services were inadequate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His government-appointed lawyer told his family on July 2, 2022, that there was &#8216;no point&#8217; to him objecting against the Revolutionary Court admitting his forced &#8216;confessions&#8217; as evidence,&#8221; Amnesty wrote. &#8220;Prior to this, on May 9, 2021, the government-appointed lawyer said that without payment of US$250,000 from the family, he would not defend Jamshid Sharmahd in court and would only &#8216;sit there&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>msh\/dj (AP, dpa, Reuters)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/iran-executes-german-iranian-jamshid-sharmahd\/a-70622205\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian state media reported\u00a0that Jamshid Sharmahd\u00a0was executed on Monday after being convicted\u00a0last year.\u00a0\u00a0 Sharmahd was sentenced to death in February 2023 following a conviction by Iran&#8217;s Islamic Revolutionary Court on &hellip; 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