Amid ongoing execution spree, California man reportedly executed by Iran: 'Murdered by the regime'

On Monday, Jamshid Sharmahd, a resident of California and a critic of the Tehran regime, was reportedly executed by the Islamic Republic of Iran, according to The Associated Press.

On Monday morning, the Iranian regime's judiciary website Mizan announced the death of 69-year-old Sharmahd.

Gazelle, Sharmahd's daughter living in California, previously stated to Planet Chronicle Digital that the Iranian regime is falsely accusing an innocent man of bombing and expressed her father's fondness for the United States.

In August 2023, she told Planet Chronicle Digital that her father had chosen the United States as his home, worked hard, followed all the rules, belonged to a family of four generations of U.S. citizenship, lived here for 20 years as a tax-paying, law-abiding resident, and would have been a U.S. citizen if it wasn't for the terrorists. She qualified as a U.S. national under the Levinson law.

The Levinson Act specifies that a "United States national" refers to a "lawful permanent resident with substantial connections to the United States," as per the State Department.

The disappearance of Robert Levinson, a retired FBI agent and private investigator, from an Iranian island in 2007, led to his being held hostage and eventually declared dead in 2020. His family accused the Iranian regime of his capture and imprisonment.

The Biden administration faced criticism for reportedly abandoning Sharmahd and punting his case over to Germany, where Annalena Baerbock, the German Green party foreign minister, failed to use her country's economic and political leverage to secure Sharmahd's release.

Planet Chronicle Digital sent press queries to the German foreign ministry.

In 2020, Sharmahd was kidnapped by the Iranian regime in Dubai while on a business trip, following an assassination attempt in California in which an Iranian agent was convicted of planning the murder.

According to the Iranian regime-controlled website Mizan, without any evidence, Sharmahd carried out "numerous terrorist activities under the orders of his superiors in the U.S. and Israeli intelligence services."

Lawdan Bazargan, an Iranian-American human rights activist and expert on the clerical regime, stated to Planet Chronicle Digital that in 1988, after Iran was forced to accept a cease-fire with Iraq, it exacted brutal revenge by executing over 5,000 political prisoners, including her brother, Bijan, who had already served years behind bars. The world stood by in silence, failing to hold the regime accountable. Jamshid Sharmahd's execution is now another diversion, covering the regime's failures against Israel and the losses suffered by Hezbollah and Hamas.

If the world remains silent again, more innocent Iranian prisoners will be killed. The global community must unite against this terrorist regime – Germany and other European nations should expel Iranian diplomats, close the Islamic Republic of Iran's embassies that act as terror safe houses, and declare the IRGC a terrorist organization. The U.S. must also use every tool at its disposal to pressure Iran into halting these executions.

According to Amnesty International, Sharmahd's conviction of "corruption on earth," which is not clearly defined in law and violates the principle of legality, made his trial "grossly unfair."

The Iranian authorities have been subjecting him to enforced disappearance, torture, and other ill-treatment since July 2020, including prolonged solitary confinement and denial of adequate health care, according to a British human rights group.

The justice system in Tehran alleges that Sharmahd was involved in a 2008 terrorist attack at a mosque in Shiraz, Iran, which resulted in the deaths of 14 people and injuries to over 200 others.

In 2008, Fars News reported that the Iranian National Security Council stated that the explosion in the mosque was not caused by opposition elements, but rather by munitions used in an exhibition for the martyrs of the Iran-Iraq War.

Jamshid Sharmahd, a U.S. Legal Permanent Resident and Californian, has been sentenced to death by the Islamic Republic of Iran, according to reports received by attorney Jason Poblete, who represents Sharmahd. Poblete stated that the family requests privacy until the facts are confirmed.

Vahid Beheshti, an Iranian journalist and human rights activist, criticized the Iranian regime on X, saying that Jamshid Sharmahd was killed by the Islamic Republic today.

Planet Chronicle Digital reached out to the U.S. State Department for a comment.