Germany closes 3 Iranian consulates following Iran's execution of German Iranian national

Germany volition adjacent 3 Iranian consulates successful effect to Iran’s announcement of the execution of Jamshid Sharmahd, a German Iranian nationalist and a U.S. resident, earlier this week.

"We person repeatedly and unequivocally made it wide to Tehran that the execution of a German national volition person superior consequences," German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said Thursday successful announcing the closure of the consulates successful Frankfurt, Munich and Hamburg.

Germany volition let Iran’s embassy successful Berlin to stay open. And Germany volition "continue to support our diplomatic channels and our embassy successful Tehran,” Baerbock said.

"The information that this assassination took spot successful the airy of the latest developments successful the Middle East shows that [Iran's] dictatorial, unjust authorities ... does not enactment according to mean diplomatic logic," she said. "It is not without crushed that our diplomatic relations are already astatine an all-time low.”

Sharmahd, 69, was accused of a relation successful the deadly bombing of a mosque successful Shiraz successful 2008. He was convicted of the superior discourtesy of “corruption connected Earth,” a word Iranian authorities usage to notation to a wide scope of offenses, including those related to Islamic morals.

His household has denied the charges against him.

In an exclusive interrogation with VOA’s Persian Service, Sharmahd’s girl Ghazaleh Sharmahd warned that her father's execution connected Monday would not soundlessness the question for justice.

“They made a immense mistake, reasoning that by sidesplitting my begetter and the radical of Iran, these movements would end. But they were incorrect — sidesplitting lone makes these movements stronger, much aggravated and much energized. ... The Islamic Republic made a immense mistake,” she said.

Ghazaleh Sharmahd besides said she is seeking the information of her father’s death. She told VOA that the Islamic Republic informed the U.S. and Germany astir her father’s death.

“They judge the words of terrorists and nonstop maine their condolences?” she said. “They person a work to analyse what truly happened.”

VOA’s Persian Service contributed to this report. Some accusation came from Agence France-Presse and Reuters.