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Iran executes dissident Jamshid Sharmah over terror conviction


According to the human rights group, Sharmahd had created a website to publish statements from the KAI, a little-known US-based group that seeks to restore the monarchy overthrown in the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

However, Iranian authorities said he was Tondar’s leader and had “planned 23 terror attacks”, of which “five were successful”, including the 2008 bombing of a mosque in Shiraz in that killed 14 people.

When Sharmahd was sentenced in February last year, Germany’s Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock condemned it as “absolutely unacceptable”.

He was executed on Sunday, after approval from the Supreme Court, the Iranian judiciary’s Mizan website said on Monday.



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