California man faces execution in Iran for being a journalist

JERUSALEM, Israel – With the leaders of Russia, Iran and Turkey set to fulfill in Tehran Tuesday to border up their plans for the Mideast, a authorized U.S. resident and German citizen Jamshid Sharmahd faces public execution for being a journalist. 

Talking from California, Sharmahd’s daughter Gazelle instructed Fox Information Digital {that a} Tehran regime lawyer instructed the household a “loss of life sentence is definite.” Gazelle stated a sixth listening to of her father’s “sham trial” would possibly unfold this week. Iran’s regime refused to permit an impartial lawyer to characterize Sharmahd.  

The clerical regime kidnapped the 67-year-old Sharmahd in July 2020 whereas he was staying at a resort in Dubai. Sharmahd has lived in California since 2003.  

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Jamshid Sharmahd is going through the loss of life penalty in Iran. Sharmahd was allegedly kidnapped by the Iran regime in Dubai in 2020.

Tehran’s opaque justice system claims Sharmahd performed a job in a 2008 terrorist assault at a mosque in Shiraz, Iran that left 14 useless and greater than 200 injured.  

Nonetheless, 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 inner 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.” 

Gazelle stated the trial is designed to discover a scapegoat for the 2008 blast and to “persecute dissidents and activists.” 

Sharmahd labored as a radio journalist in California exposing the excessive ranges of Iranian residents’ dissatisfaction with the theocratic state. “My dad created a web site the place activists [in Iran] may publish articles, and he would speak about it on his radio present,” Gazelle stated.  

Germany, which has been Iran’s most vital commerce associate over the a long time, has confronted widespread criticism for failing to prioritize Sharmahd’s case and win his freedom. 

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“I don’t see true actions from Germany. If Germany needs to rescue my dad, they will. They’ve the sources,” stated Gazelle. 

Sharmahd’s daughter says her father suffers from Parkinson’s illness and is being held in isolation.
(Image courtesy of the Sharmahd household)

The “true actions” she calls for embody help for calls from Iranian-Individuals and German-Iranians to use most stress on the regime to safe her father’s launch. Iranian-American human rights activist Lawdan Bazargan stated Berlin ought to pull the plug on its diplomatic relationship with Tehran to ship a message to Iran’s rulers about Sharmahd’s dire plight. “Germany ought to have damaged its ties to the Islamic Republic of Iran years in the past,” she stated. 

Bazargan, who was imprisoned by the regime within the Nineteen Eighties for dissident exercise, stated Germany continues to refuse to see “the massive image that the IRI [the Islamic Republic of Iran] is a state-sponsor of terrorism and is a hazard for humanity.” 

Kazem Moussavi, a German-Iranian dissident and spokesman for the Inexperienced Celebration of Iran in exile, instructed Fox Information Digital, “The regime in Iran is decided to execute the Iranian opposition determine and German citizen Jamshid Sharmahd. 

“I’ll say frankly: His solely likelihood of survival is that if the [Berlin] federal authorities acts constantly and instantly. I name on Chancellor Olaf Scholz and International Minister Annalena Baerbock to unequivocally demand that the ayatollahs launch Jamshid Sharmahd instantly and to emphasize that Germany will sever relations with the regime and severely sanction it if there’s an execution.”  

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Lisa Daftari, an knowledgeable on Iran and editor-in-chief of The International Desk web site, instructed Fox Information Digital, “The U.S. and Germany ought to completely use no matter diplomatic leverage they must sanction the regime over Sharmahd’s case.” 

She continued, “The latest uptick in human rights abuses by Iran’s regime, significantly within the concentrating on of international nationals, is a consequence of weak insurance policies towards the mullahs. They wish to present the world that they’ve the higher hand and the extra dominant negotiating place vis-à-vis the West, and taking hostages and making examples out of them has been their modus operandi since they got here to energy in Tehran [in 1979].” 

On this photograph launched by the official web site of the workplace of the Iranian supreme chief, Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks in a televised New Yr speech, in Tehran, Iran, Monday, March 21, 2022. 
(Workplace of the Iranian Supreme Chief through AP)

Jason I. Poblete, Sharmahd’s U.S.-based lawyer, instructed Fox Information Digital: “If there’s going to be a launch of hostages in Iran that features U.S. nationals – and evidently there shall be – then Jimmy [Jamshid] have to be on that listing. Mr. Sharmahd was kidnapped, paraded on Iranian state tv by the supreme chief, and is being held hostage. The Individuals, Germans and different stakeholders should do an entire lot greater than what they’ve been doing.” 

When Fox Information Digital requested the German International Ministry if it could announce that it could reduce diplomatic and financial relations with Iran’s regime if the Tehran Revolutionary Court docket sentences Sharmahd to loss of life, a spokesman dodged the query and stated: “The loss of life penalty is a merciless, inhuman and degrading type of punishment which the federal authorities, below all circumstances and unreservedly, opposes. We preserve telling Iran this clearly in reference to Mr. Sharmahd.” 

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For Gazelle, the international ministry assertion was one more platitude that she and her household have been listening to for the 720 days her father, who suffers from Parkinson’s illness, has been held in isolation. 

“All of his enamel, excluding two, have fallen out. They’re emotionally and psychologically torturing Jimmy. And the German authorities simply says we condemn the loss of life penalty usually. They must do one thing.” 

The U.S. State Division didn’t instantly reply to a Fox Information Digital press question.