The daughter of a California resident and German-Iranian twin citizen who was once completed via Tehran on Monday slammed the Biden-Harris management and German govt for his or her alleged incompetence in saving him.
Gazelle Sharmahd posted a video of herself Monday evening — wearing all black — as she silently mourned her father, Jamshid Sharmahd’s, loss of life whilst tying her hair again similarly to feminine protesters in Iran’s Girls, Existence, Freedom motion.
Gazelle criticized the silence from President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, whose governments she categorized “incompetent and corrupt.”
Gazelle Sharmahd mourned the loss of life of her father, German-Iranian dissident Jamshid Sharmahd. X / @GazelleSharmahd
Jamshid Sharmahd, a California resident, was once completed via Iran on terror fees, which his circle of relatives refutes. MIZAN NEWS AGENCY/AFP by the use of Getty Photographs
“What have they (#US & #German) achieved for 4 years when their German-American nationwide was once abducted in Dubai and brought to Iran via drive?” Gazelle posted on X.
“As an American-German nationwide was once brutally and shamelessly abducted, tortured, held hostage for 4 years and (if showed) murdered via the largest terrorist Organisation on this planet, it appears for retaliation of Israeli moves at the regime, this should have speedy and unmistakable grave penalties for them now,” she added.
Iranian officers introduced that Jamshid, a dissident who lived in Glendora out of doors L.A. along with his circle of relatives, was once completed Monday morning after the Islamic republic discovered him responsible of making plans a 2008 assault on a mosque that killed 14 other people and wounded over 200 others, in an ordeal slammed via Amnesty World as a sham.
Jamshid Sharmahd is noticed with circle of relatives. They’ve lived in California for greater than two decades. Courtesy of Gazelle Sharmahd, RN, BSN
Gazelle and her circle of relatives have lengthy disputed the claims from Tehran, spending years advocating for Jamshid’s unlock after he was once kidnapped throughout a flight layover in Dubai in 2020.
He was once significantly excluded within the 2023 deal that noticed $6 billion — which might be recently frozen — passed to Tehran in alternate for 5 prisoners as a result of because the 20-year US resident was once no longer an American citizen.
The heartbroken daughter has long-claimed that her father, a inexperienced card holder, must had been integrated within the deal over the Levinson Act — named after former FBI agent Robert Levinson who disappeared in Iran, which gives protections to US electorate and US nationals taken hostage in another country.
Gazelle and her brother, Shayan (left), met with US Deputy Particular Envoy for Iran Abram Paley to suggest for his or her father’s unlock final 12 months. X / @USEnvoyIran
Gazelle additionally blamed her father’s loss of life on Abram Paley, The us’s Iran-deputy particular envoy who met along with her final 12 months and whose place of job is investigating Jamshid’s loss of life.
“YOU left him to die, whilst the Biden-Harris Management passed $6 billion to his captors and, if showed, his murderers,” Gazelle wrote.
“We are not looking for any statements or condolences that don’t come with the speedy go back of my father (useless or alive) and a critical punishment for the Islamic Regime murderers,” she added.
Together with the phobia fees, Tehran accused Jamshid of plotting a number of different attacks during the little-known Kingdom Meeting of Iran — an opposition team in the hunt for to revive the monarchy that was once overthrown via the Islamic Revolution in 1979 — and its Tondar militant wing.
Iran by no means equipped proof to its claims towards Jamshid, who was once denied the correct to protect himself in court docket.
Jamshid Sharmahd were abducted throughout a layover flight in Dubai in 2020. AFP by the use of Getty Photographs
Paley stated Jamshid’s execution “constitute the newest abhorrent act within the regime’s lengthy historical past of transnational repression and accelerating price of executions.”
Scholz referred to as the execution a “scandal,” with German International Minister Annalena Baerbock threatening “critical penalties” over Jamshid’s loss of life.
“We now have campaigned tirelessly for Jamshid Sharmahd and despatched a high-ranking group from the overseas place of job to Tehran on a number of events,” Baberbock stated in a remark.
“The killing of Jamshid Sharmahd presentations what sort of inhumane regime is in position there: a regime that makes use of loss of life towards its formative years, its personal inhabitants and overseas nationals,” she added.
