Iran Executes California Man Jamshid Sharmahd After Abducting Him During International Flight Layover, Convicting Him of Terror Charges

New York Post

Iranian-German prisoner Jamshid Sharmahd, who was kidnapped in Dubai in 2020 by Iranian security forces, has been executed in Iran after being convicted on terror charges disputed by his family, the country’s judiciary reported Monday.

The judiciary’s Mizan news agency reported his execution took place Monday morning.

Iran accused Sharmahd, who lived in Glendora, California, of planning a 2008 attack on a mosque that killed 14 people and wounded over 200 others, as well as plotting other assaults through the little-known Kingdom Assembly of Iran and its Tondar militant wing.

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