Berlin had promised to make Tehran pay for executing a German-Iranian terror suspect
Germany will shut all three Iranian consulates on its soil in response to Tehran’s execution of a German-Iranian twin citizen for terrorism offenses, International Minister Annalena Baerbock introduced on Thursday.
“We have now repeatedly and unequivocally made it clear to Tehran that the execution of a German citizen could have critical penalties,” Baerbock stated in a televised deal with. Along with closing the consulates in Frankfurt, Munich, and Hamburg, Baerbock stated that Germany will search EU sanctions in opposition to these concerned in Jamshid Sharmahd’s execution.
Sharmahd was executed on Monday for “planning and orchestrating a collection of terrorist acts,” Iranian state media reported. A citizen of each Iran and Germany, Sharmahd had been dwelling within the US since 2003, the place he led a gaggle of Iranian exiles devoted to overthrowing the nation’s ruling clerics and restoring the US-backed monarchy that ran the nation earlier than the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Sharmahd was arrested by Iranian safety forces within the United Arab Emirates in 2020. He was taken to Iran and accused of orchestrating a number of terrorist acts, together with the 2008 bombing of a mosque within the southern metropolis of Shiraz that killed 14 folks and injured 200. He was discovered responsible final yr and sentenced to loss of life.
Earlier this week, Baerbock accused the Iranian authorities of “utilizing loss of life as a weapon,” and warned that Sharmahd’s “homicide” would have dire penalties for Tehran.
“Sufficient with the gaslighting,” Iranian International Minister Abbas Araghchi responded. “Jamshid Sharmahd brazenly and unashamedly led a terrorist assault on a MOSQUE that killed 14 harmless folks. A German passport doesn’t present impunity to anybody, not to mention a terrorist legal.”
EU international coverage chief Josep Borrell stated this week that the bloc condemned Sharmahd’s “killing within the strongest attainable phrases” and was additionally “contemplating measures in response.”
“How about ‘an EU measure’ to finish the killing of greater than 50k Palestinians in Gaza?” Araghchi replied to Borrell. “How about ‘an EU measure’ to assist the households of these killed by Jamshid Sharmahd? If not, Europe solely stands for hypocrisy.”
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