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The family of the Diaspora captured by Iran: "Abducted while in Dubai"
Tehran has not revealed how it arrested Jamshed Shermhad, a senior member of an opposition organization operating in California. His family claims he was not involved in terrorist acts. "You can't take a person from a third country and drag him to a country"
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Tuesday, 04 August 2020, 16:09The family of Jamshid Shermhad, a member of an Iranian opposition organization operating in California, said today (Tuesday) that he was abducted by Iran while in Dubai. The allegations of his abduction match his cellular information, which his family shared with the AP news agency, according to which he was taken to neighboring Oman before being transferred to Iran.
Tehran did not say how she arrested him when she announced it on Saturday. She accuses Sharmahed, 65, of Glendora, California, of plotting a 2008 attack in the city of Shiraz and other attacks through the leadership of Thunder, the military arm of the Kingdom of Iran assembly, a small organization that supports the return of the monarchy to Iran. Official television aired his interview, in a document reminiscent of other forced confessions broadcast by the regime in the past decade.
However, his family insists that he was only a spokesman for the organization and was not involved in the name of an attack on Iran. He was already the target of an assassination attempt, on Iran's suspicion, on US soil in 2009. "We are looking for support from any democratic or free country," Benno Shehan told the Associated Press. "This is a violation of human rights. It is impossible to take a person from a third country and drag him to a country."
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Sharmhad's son said his father was in Dubai, and from there he planned to fly to India to sign a deal related to his software company. He hoped to board a connecting flight, despite the corona plague that disrupted the global aviation industry.
The last announcement from him was received on July 28th. Then, his son said, he did not respond to calls and messages. According to his cell phone information, his phone was at a hotel at Dubai International Airport, where he was staying.
It is not clear how the abduction took place. An employee at the hotel said that Ramahad checked out on July 29. The cellular information showed that he was traveling south, from Doby to the city of al-Ain, crossed the border into Oman and stayed overnight in a madrasa near the border. The next day, he arrived in the port city of Oman a-Sahar. There his cellular signal stopped. On Saturday, Iran announced that it had captured Shramhad in a "complex operation," and the intelligence ministry released a picture of him with his eyes covered.
