Iran's Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence of Iranian-German dissident Jamshid Sharmahd for his involvement in a 2008 bombing, a court announced on Wednesday.
"
Jamshid Sharmahd's judgment has been upheld by the Supreme Court and, after notification to the court, the execution measures (of the sentence) will be taken,
" said the justice spokesman, Massoud Sétayechi, during the his weekly press conference in Tehran.
Aged 68, Jamshid Sharmahd was sentenced to death on February 21 by a court in Tehran for having participated in an attack against a mosque in Shiraz, in southern Iran, which killed 14 people in April 2008. This The sentence was described
as "absolutely unacceptable
" by Germany, which then expelled two Iranian diplomats stationed in Berlin on February 22.
In retaliation, Iran in turn expelled two German diplomats based in Tehran on March 1.
FBI and CIA officer
By sentencing him to death, the Iranian justice also accused Jamshid Sharmahd of having established contacts with "
FBI and CIA officers
" and of having "
attempted to contact agents of the Israeli Mossad
".
Iran announced in August 2020 the arrest of the dissident who then resided in the United States, during a "
complex operation
", without specifying where or how or when he was arrested.
According to his family, he was abducted by Iranian security services while in transit in Dubai and forcibly returned to Iran.
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Tehran had provoked a wave of international indignation after in January executing a former senior Iranian Ministry of Defense official, the Iranian-Briton Alireza Akbari, convicted of espionage.
At least 16 Western passport holders, including six French, are detained in Iran.
Most of them are dual nationals but Iran does not recognize dual nationality status for its nationals.