An Iranian German, Djamshid Sharmahd, has been sentenced to death after a controversial trial in the Islamic Republic.
The 67-year-old man has been
accused of being responsible for a terrorist attack
.
The sentence can be appealed to the Supreme Court.
In a statement, quoted by Iranian state TV, the justice department of Tehran province writes that Sharmahd is "the
leader of the Tondar terrorist group
, has lived in the US and was
preparing to carry out 23 terrorist attacks
after having managed to carry out five ", including the Khomeini shrine bombing.
The dissident is accused by Iranian justice of having "ties" with the secret services of the United States and Israel and of having directed the detonation of a bomb that exploded during a religious ceremony in Shiraz in April 2008, which left 14 dead, explosion at the shrine of the father of Iran's Islamic revolution, Rohollah Khomeini and preparing bombs to detonate at a seminary.
Sharmahd's death sentence "
is absolutely unacceptable
" and "the imposition of the death penalty will provoke a strong reaction" from Germany.
This was communicated in a note by the German Foreign Minister,
Annalena Baerbock
.
Iran "has repeatedly denied consular access and access to trial dates" to Germany.
Berlin asks Tehran "to remedy these deficiencies in the appeal process, to correct the sentence and to refrain from imposing the death penalty".
