Iran executes German citizen over charges of ‘corruption on Earth’

Iran executed a 69-year-old German-Iranian software developer and US resident, Jamshid Sharmahd on Monday, October 28, following years of imprisonment.

Sharmahd was abducted by Iranian agents in 2020 when he was on a visit to the United Arab Emirates. The Iranian authorities said he was arrested during a “complex operation” but



specific information remains ambiguous. He was sentenced to death in February 2023 for “corruption on Earth,” and was accused of being involved in the 2008 bombing of a Shia mosque in Shiraz that led to the deaths of 14 people and over 200 others injured. His family has consistently maintained his innocence, asserting that the allegations against him were fabricated.