Iran’s judiciary has mentioned Iranian-German dissident Jamshid Sharmahd died earlier than his execution was reported by state media late final month.
The judiciary’s information company mentioned on 28 October that Sharmahd – who was sentenced to dying on the cost of “corruption on Earth” in 2023 following a trial that human rights teams mentioned was grossly unfair – had been “punished for his actions”.
On Tuesday, judiciary spokesman Asghar Jahangir advised reporters that “his sentence was able to be applied, however he died earlier than the sentence was carried out”. He gave no additional particulars.
There was no instant remark from Sharmahd’s daughter Gazelle, who had demanded proof of his execution, or from Germany.
German International Minister Annalena Baerbock ordered the closure of all three Iranian consulates in her nation and recalled the German ambassador from Tehran final week in response to what she condemned because the “cold-blooded homicide” of Sharmahd.
Mr Jahangir dismissed Germany’s protest at Tuesday’s information convention, insisting that Iran’s judicial system was “an impartial establishment” and that it did “not permit any interference of any overseas nation in judicial affairs”.
He additionally mentioned that Sharmahd, who lived within the US, had been tried “as an Iranian for the terrorist actions that he dedicated”.
On Sunday, Sharmahd’s household mentioned they have been ready for German and the US to verify what had occurred to him.
“Please know that we don’t settle for condolences till we now have obtained proof by the German and American authorities of the reported homicide of my father Jimmy Sharmahd and the precise circumstances,” his daughter Gazelle Sharmahd wrote on X.
“We don’t belief the empty phrases of terrorist or complicit governments and neither do you have to.”
Iranian authorities accused the 69-year-old journalist and activist of being the chief of a terrorist group often known as Tondar and of planning various assaults in Iran, together with the 2008 bombing of a mosque in Shiraz in that killed 14 individuals.
Tondar – which implies “thunder” in Persian – is one other title of the Kingdom Meeting of Iran (KAI), a little-known US-based opposition group that seeks to revive the monarchy overthrown within the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Sharmahd mentioned he was solely a spokesman for Tondar and denied any involvement within the assaults.
His household imagine he was kidnapped in July 2020 by Iranian brokers in Dubai, the place he was ready for a connecting flight to India, after which forcibly taken to Iran through Oman.
The next month, Iran’s intelligence ministry introduced that it had arrested Sharmahd following a “complicated operation”, with out offering any particulars. It additionally revealed a video during which he appeared blindfolded and seemingly confessed to numerous crimes.
Iran’s judiciary additionally introduced on Tuesday {that a} court docket within the north-western metropolis of Orumiyeh had handed dying sentences to a few individuals convicted of involvement within the 2020 assassination of prime Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.
Fakhrizadeh was shot lifeless by a remote-controlled weapon close to Tehran in an assault that Iran blamed on Israel.
Mr Jahangir mentioned the three individuals have been accused of “committing espionage for the occupying regime of Israel” and “transporting tools into Iran for the assassination of martyr Fakhrizadeh underneath the guise of smuggling alcoholic drinks”.
