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Jamshid Sharmahd attends the first hearing of his trial in Tehran on Feb. 6, 2022. (Koosha Mahshid Falahi/Mizan News Agency)
Jamshid Sharmahd attends the first hearing of his trial in Tehran on Feb. 6, 2022. (Koosha Mahshid Falahi/Mizan News Agency)

Iran's state media reported Monday that authorities have executed Iranian-German dissident Jamshid Sharmahd after convicting him on terrorism charges.

Sharmahd, an Iranian and German dual citizen and opposition figure, was accused of masterminding a deadly 2008 bombing of a mosque in Shiraz. His family strongly denied the charges.

Sharmahd, 68, had been living in the United States, where he served as the spokesperson for Tondar, a group that aims to restore the Western-backed monarchy that ruled Iran before the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock condemned the execution in the “strongest possible terms” and said Sharmahd was “abducted to Iran from Dubai, held for years without a fair trial and has now been killed.”

She said the German government “made it crystal clear to Tehran time and again that the execution of a German national would have severe consequences.”

Germany expelled two Iranian diplomats in 2023 over Sharmahd’s sentence.

U.S. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said Monday, "We have long made clear that we oppose the way Iran carries out executions, often in a way that fundamentally violates human rights.”

Sharmahd was given the death penalty in 2023 for “corruption on Earth,” a term Iranian authorities use to refer to a broad range of offenses, including those related to Islamic morals.

The Iranian judiciary's Mizan news agency reported his execution took place Monday morning but did not give further details.

Some information for this report came from Reuters and Agence France-Presse.

FILE - A watchtower between Afghanistan and Iran is pictured at the Milak border crossing Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran, Sept. 8, 2021. (Majid Asgaripour/West Asia News Agency)
FILE - A watchtower between Afghanistan and Iran is pictured at the Milak border crossing Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran, Sept. 8, 2021. (Majid Asgaripour/West Asia News Agency)

Iranian armed forces killed at least four "terrorists" in the southeast of the country on Sunday after a deadly jihadist attack on police the day before.

At least 10 police officers were killed in the attack, one of the deadliest claimed by a jihadist group in a border area between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

The attack targeted police cars in Taftan county, part of Sistan and Baluchestan, a region some 1,200 kilometers from the capital, Tehran.

The Sunni jihadist group Jaish al-Adl ("Army of Justice" in Arabic), based in Pakistan and active in the area, claimed responsibility for the attack via the Telegram messaging service.

According to the Tasnim news agency, law enforcement officers killed at least four of the "terrorists" involved in the attack during a drone targeting operation.

"During this operation, four terrorists were killed, others escaped and four were arrested," the agency added.

Sistan and Baluchestan, which shares a long, porous border with Pakistan and Afghanistan, is one of the poorest parts of Iran.

The region is home to a large population of the Baloch ethnic minority, who practice Sunni Islam in contrast to the country's predominant Shia branch.

Recurring clashes there pit Iranian security forces against rebels from the Baluch minority, radical Sunni groups, and drug traffickers.

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