The Islamic Republic of Iran on Monday reportedly executed the journalist Jamshid Sharmahd, who was a resident of California and a pointy critic of the regime in Tehran, based on The Related Press.
The Iranian regime’s judiciary Mizan web site introduced that the 69-year-old Sharmahd was killed on Monday morning.
Sharmahd’s daughter, Gazelle, who lives in California, beforehand informed Fox Information Digital the Iranian regime is “scapegoating an harmless man” over bombing allegations, and spoke of his affinity for the US.
She told Fox News Digital in August, 2023, “My dad selected the US as his dwelling, labored exhausting, adopted all the foundations, belongs to a household of 4 generations round him of U.S. citizenship, lived right here for 20 years as a tax-paying, law-abiding resident and would have already got his citizenship if it wasn’t for the terrorists and qualifies as a U.S. nationwide underneath the Levinson legislation.”
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Iran reportedly executed California resident journalist Jamshid Sharmahd, a pointy critic of the regime in Tehran. (Gazelle Sharmahd)
The Levinson Act defines a “United States nationwide” as a “lawful everlasting resident with vital ties to the US.” In response to the State Division, the definition applies to non-U.S. residents.
The act was named after Robert Levinson, a retired FBI agent and personal investigator who disappeared from an Iranian island in 2007. Levinson was held hostage and was declared useless in 2020 when he was mentioned to have died in Iranian custody. His household blamed the Iranian regime for his seize and imprisonment.
Fox Information Digital reported that the Biden administration confronted intense criticism for reportedly abandoning Sharmahd and punting his case over to Germany. Sharmahd is a German citizen. In response to critics of Germany’s Iran coverage, the German Green party foreign minister Annalena Baerbock failed to make use of her nation’s financial and political leverage to safe Sharmahd’s launch.
Fox Information Digital despatched press queries to the German international ministry.
Sharmahd survived an assassination try in California by which an Iranian agent was convicted of the deliberate homicide. He was then kidnapped by the Iranian regime in Dubai in 2020 as a part of a enterprise journey.
The Iranian regime-controlled web site Mizan claimed, with out proof, that Sharmahd dedicated “a number of terrorist acts on the route of his masters within the intelligence companies of U.S. and Israel.”
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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in break up with anti-execution protest. (Getty Photographs)
Lawdan Bazargan, an Iranian-American human rights activist and knowledgeable on the clerical regime, informed Fox Information Digital, “In 1988, after the Islamic Republic of Iran was compelled to just accept a cease-fire with Iraq, it exacted brutal revenge by executing over 5,000 political prisoners, together with my brother, Bijan, who had already served years behind bars. The world stood by in silence, failing to carry the regime accountable. Jamshid Sharmahd’s execution is now one other diversion, overlaying the regime’s failures in opposition to Israel and the losses suffered by Hezbollah and Hamas.”
She added, “If the world stays silent once more, extra harmless Iranian prisoners will likely be killed. The worldwide group should unite in opposition to this terrorist regime – Germany and different European nations ought to expel Iranian diplomats, shut the Islamic Republic of Iran’s embassies that act as terror secure homes, and declare the IRGC a terrorist group. The U.S. should additionally use each device at its disposal to strain Iran into halting these executions.”
Amnesty Worldwide famous that Sharmahd “was convicted of the cost of ‘corruption on earth’ which isn’t clearly outlined in legislation, and as such contravenes the precept of legality” and termed his trial “grossly unfair.”
Jamshid Sharmahd attends his trial on the Revolutionary Courtroom, in Tehran, Iran, Feb. 6, 2022. (Koosha Mahshid Falahi/Mizan Information Company by way of AP)
The British human rights group added, “Since July 2020, the Iranian authorities have been subjecting him to enforced disappearance, torture and different ill-treatment, together with by way of extended solitary confinement and denial of ample well being care.”
Tehran’s opaque justice system claims Sharmahd performed a task in a 2008 terrorist assault at a mosque in Shiraz, Iran, that left 14 useless and greater than 200 injured.
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Nevertheless, the regime-controlled media outlet Fars Information quoted the Iranian Nationwide Safety Council in 2008 as saying, “The explosion of a bomb or any explosion carried out by opposition components, be they inside or international, is dominated out. The blast was attributable to some munitions utilized in an exhibition for the [Iran-Iraq War] martyrs within the mosque.”
Jason Poblete, the legal professional for Jamshid Sharmahd, wrote on X, “We’re receiving experiences that the Islamic Republic of Iran has carried out the loss of life sentence in opposition to U.S. Authorized Everlasting Resident and Californian Jamshid Sharmahd.” He added that the household requests privateness till the info are confirmed.
Iranian journalist and human rights activist Vahid Beheshti blasted the Iranian regime on X, stating partially that Jamshid Sharmahd “was murdered at the moment by the regime of the Islamic Republic.”
Fox Information Digital reached out to the U.S. State Division for a remark.
