Iran summons the German ambassador in Tehran after Berlin’s position on the execution of a dissident

MADRID 30 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Iranian Foreign Ministry reported this Tuesday that it has summoned the German ambassador to the country, Markus Potzel, to protest the position of the German authorities after the execution of the German-Iranian dissident Jamshid Sharmahd, whom Tehran had accused of participating in several terrorist attacks in the country.

The director for Western Europe of the ministerial portfolio summoned Potzel during the afternoon “in protest against the interventionist stance of some German officials in relation to the judicial powers” of Iran and conveyed to him “the firm objection” to the “inappropriate” statements. facts” about Sharmahd, according to a statement.

The diplomat stressed that the executed man had been convicted of organizing and directing terrorist operations, since he was “responsible” for attacks such as the bombing of a mosque in Shiraz in 2008 that “caused the death and injury of more than 200 innocent Iranians.” “. “This contradicts Germany’s claims to defend the rule of law, human rights, accountability and the fight against terrorism,” he added.

Likewise, he has emphasized that “all individuals are equal before the law” and that “possession of a passport from a third country cannot serve as a pretext or exemption for its citizens to face the law in their country of origin.” .

On the other hand, he has criticized Germany’s support “for the genocide of the Zionist regime” in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, including the supply of weapons. Thus, he took the opportunity to criticize that “Germany’s claims regarding Human Rights are clearly incompatible with its comprehensive support for Israel, which amounts to complicity in serious international crimes,” he said.

Hours earlier, the German Government called its ambassador in Tehran, Markus Potzel, for consultations and summoned Iran’s ambassador to the country, Mahmud Farazandé, in protest at the execution. The German Foreign Minister, Annalena Baerbock, had stressed that the dissident was “kidnapped in Dubai and forcibly transferred to Iran, where he has remained imprisoned for years without a fair trial being held against him” and warned that the execution shows that power in Iran falls on an “inhuman regime that punishes the people, its population and foreign citizens, leading to death.”