Iran reportedly executes California man amid ongoing execution spree: 'Murdered by the regime'

The Islamic Republic of Iran connected Monday reportedly executed the writer Jamshid Sharmahd, who was a nonmigratory of California and a crisp professional of the authorities successful Tehran, according to The Associated Press.

The Iranian regime’s judiciary Mizan website announced that the 69-year-old Sharmahd was killed connected Monday morning.

Sharmahd’s daughter, Gazelle, who lives successful California, antecedently told Fox News Digital the Iranian authorities is "scapegoating an guiltless man" implicit bombing allegations, and spoke of his affinity for the United States.

She told Fox News Digital successful August, 2023, "My dada chose the United States arsenic his home, worked hard, followed each the rules, belongs to a household of 4 generations astir him of U.S. citizenship, lived present for 20 years arsenic a tax-paying, law-abiding nonmigratory and would already person his citizenship if it wasn’t for the terrorists and qualifies arsenic a U.S. nationalist nether the Levinson law."

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Iran reportedly executed California nonmigratory writer Jamshid Sharmahd, a crisp professional of the authorities successful Tehran. (Gazelle Sharmahd)

The Levinson Act defines a "United States national" arsenic a "lawful imperishable nonmigratory with important ties to the United States." According to the State Department, the definition applies to non-U.S. citizens. 

The enactment was named aft Robert Levinson, a retired FBI cause and backstage researcher who disappeared from an Iranian land successful 2007. Levinson was held hostage and was declared dormant successful 2020 erstwhile helium was said to person died successful Iranian custody. His household blamed the Iranian authorities for his seizure and imprisonment.

Fox News Digital reported that the Biden medication faced aggravated disapproval for reportedly abandoning Sharmahd and punting his lawsuit implicit to Germany. Sharmahd is simply a German citizen. According to critics of Germany's Iran policy, the German Green enactment overseas curate Annalena Baerbock failed to usage her country’s economical and governmental leverage to unafraid Sharmahd’s release.

Fox News Digital sent property queries to the German overseas ministry.

Sharmahd survived an assassination effort successful California successful which an Iranian cause was convicted of the planned murder. He was past kidnapped by the Iranian authorities successful Dubai successful 2020 arsenic portion of a concern trip.

The Iranian regime-controlled website Mizan claimed, without evidence, that Sharmahd committed "multiple violent acts astatine the absorption of his masters in the quality services of U.S. and Israel."

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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei successful divided with anti-execution protest. (Getty Images)

Lawdan Bazargan, an Iranian-American human rights activistic and adept connected the clerical regime, told Fox News Digital, "In 1988, aft the Islamic Republic of Iran was forced to judge a cease-fire with Iraq, it exacted brutal revenge by executing implicit 5,000 governmental prisoners, including my brother, Bijan, who had already served years down bars. The satellite stood by successful silence, failing to clasp the authorities accountable. Jamshid Sharmahd’s execution is present different diversion, covering the regime’s failures against Israel and the losses suffered by Hezbollah and Hamas."

She added, "If the satellite remains soundless again, much guiltless Iranian prisoners volition beryllium killed. The planetary assemblage indispensable unite against this violent authorities – Germany and different European nations should expel Iranian diplomats, adjacent the Islamic Republic of Iran's embassies that enactment arsenic panic harmless houses, and state the IRGC a violent organization. The U.S. indispensable besides usage each instrumentality astatine its disposal to unit Iran into halting these executions."

Amnesty International noted that Sharmahd "was convicted of the complaint of ‘corruption connected earth’ which is not intelligibly defined successful law, and arsenic specified contravenes the rule of legality" and termed his proceedings "grossly unfair."

Jamshid Sharmahd attends his proceedings astatine the Revolutionary Court, successful Tehran, Iran, Feb. 6, 2022. (Koosha Mahshid Falahi/Mizan News Agency via AP)

The British quality rights radical added, "Since July 2020, the Iranian authorities person been subjecting him to enforced disappearance, torture and different ill-treatment, including done prolonged solitary confinement and denial of capable wellness care."

Tehran’s opaque justness strategy claims Sharmahd played a relation successful a 2008 violent attack at a mosque successful Shiraz, Iran, that near 14 dormant and much than 200 injured.  

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However, the regime-controlled media outlet Fars News quoted the Iranian National Security Council in 2008 arsenic saying, "The detonation of a weaponry oregon immoderate detonation carried retired by absorption elements, beryllium they interior oregon foreign, is ruled out. The blast was caused by immoderate munitions utilized successful an accumulation for the [Iran-Iraq War] martyrs successful the mosque." 

Jason Poblete, the lawyer for Jamshid Sharmahd, wrote connected X, "We are receiving reports that the Islamic Republic of Iran has carried retired the decease condemnation against U.S. Legal Permanent Resident and Californian Jamshid Sharmahd." He added that the household requests privateness until the facts are confirmed.

Iranian writer and quality rights activistic Vahid Beheshti blasted the Iranian authorities connected X, stating successful portion that Jamshid Sharmahd "was murdered contiguous by the authorities of the Islamic Republic."

Fox News Digital reached retired to the U.S. State Department for a comment.