Berlin; Germany has ordered the closure of all three Iranian consulates in its country in response to the execution of Iranian-born German prisoner Jamshed Shermad in Tehran. According to the World News Agency, German Foreign Minister Annalina Bierbach ordered the closure of Iranian consulates in Frankfurt, Hamburg and Munich.
Jamshed Shermahd was hanged on charges of terrorism and the very next day the German Foreign Ministry summoned Iran’s Minister of Affairs and recorded a protest. A trial against the accused was held in 2023, which was dismissed as fraudulent by international rights groups including Germany and the US. Earlier, German Ambassador Markus Putzel also strongly protested against this sentence during a meeting with his Iranian counterpart, Abbas Araqchi. However, Abbas Araqchi wrote in his tweet that having a German passport does not exempt anyone from being released as a terrorist criminal.
Who is Jamshed Sharmad and how was he arrested from Dubai? It should be remembered that Jamshed Shermahd, who was born in Iran and has the citizenship of Germany, lived in Glendora, California, USA.
He was accused of planning an attack on a mosque in 2008 that killed 14 people, including five women and a child, and injured more than 200. Iran also accused Jamshed Shermahd of “revealing classified information” about Iran’s Revolutionary Guard’s missile installations during a television program in 2017. Jamshed Sharmad was preparing to go to India for a business deal with his software company in Dubai in 2020 but he went missing.
His last message to his family was received on July 28, 2020. It is not clear how he went missing, but tracking data shows Jamshed’s cell phone location on July 29 while traveling south from Dubai to Al Ain city. He crossed the border and reached Oman.
On July 30, tracking data showed that his phone went as far as Oman’s port city of Sohar, where the signal stopped. Iran’s intelligence later announced that a “sophisticated operation” had captured Jamshed Shermad. Iranian intelligence published a photo of Jamshed Shermahd with a blindfold. Photos of his court hearing in 2023 were also published. Last year he was sentenced to death, on which Germany expelled 2 Iranian diplomats in protest.
