MADRID 29 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell, condemned this Tuesday “in the strongest possible terms” the murder of the German-Iranian citizen Jamshid Sharmahd, accused of having participated in several terrorist attacks in the country, despite reports that he had been kidnapped in Dubai in 2020 by Iranian security forces.
“The EU is firmly opposed to the death penalty at all times and circumstances. It is a violation of the right to life and the definitive denial of human dignity,” Borrell declared on his X social network account.
After that, he extended his “solidarity to the German Government”, with which they are in contact, and shared “the pain of the family and loved ones”. Likewise, he said that the EU “is studying response measures.”
The Iranian Judiciary has reported that it has executed Sharmahd, considering him the head of the Tondar terrorist group, accused of leading terrorist attacks on the orders of the West and Israel’s Intelligence services, according to a statement collected by the Mizan news agency.
For his part, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has stated that the execution is “a scandal” and has denounced that the accused “did not even have the opportunity to defend himself against the accusations made against him at trial.”
The group, based in the United States and known as Tondar (Thunder, in Persian) seeks to restore the monarchy overthrown in the Islamic Revolution of 1979. Iranian authorities claimed that Sharmahd was the leader of the group and that he had planned more than twenty terrorist attacks, although five “were successful,” including a 2008 mosque bombing in Shiraz that killed 14 people.
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