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Germany’s foreign ministry said Tuesday it had summoned Iran’s top envoy in Berlin over the execution of a 69-year-old German-Iranian and that “further measures” may be taken.
“Following the killing of Jamshid Sharmahd by the Iranian regime, the Iranian charge d’affaires was immediately summoned to the foreign ministry today,” the ministry said.
Germany’s ambassador in Tehran had lodged a protest with the Iranian foreign minister and had “been called back to Berlin for consultations”, it added in a statement on X.
The German foreign ministry had “conveyed its strong protest against the actions of the Iranian regime,” the ministry said.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called Sharmahd’s execution on Monday a “scandal” and Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock warned the “inhuman regime” in Tehran that it faces “serious consequences” over the case.
Sharmahd was sentenced to death in February 2023 for the capital offence of “corruption on Earth”, a sentence later confirmed by the Iranian Supreme Court.
He had been convicted of playing a role in a 2008 mosque bombing in the southern city of Shiraz, in which 14 people were killed and 300 wounded.
His family have long maintained that Sharmahd was innocent.
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