Jamshid Sharmahd ( fa, جمشید شارمهد; born 23 March 1955) is a German-Iranian journalist and software engineer. He was born in Tehran and moved with his family to Germany when he was seven years old. He has been a German citizen since 1995. He established his own software company and in 2003 moved to the United States, where he is a legal resident. In late July 2020, the Intelligence of the Islamic Regime arrested Sharmahd in Dubai and brought him to Iran. The Iranian government alleges that Sharmahd is responsible for a
2008 attack on a mosque in
Shiraz
Shiraz (; fa, شیراز, Širâz ) is the fifth-most-populous city of Iran and the capital of Fars Province, which has been historically known as Pars () and Persis. As of the 2016 national census, the population of the city was 1,565,572 p ...
that killed 14 people and injured 200. He has also been accused of being a spy for Western Intelligence, which is a common accusation made of regime critics. His family deny all accusations. His abduction is one of a series of kidnappings carried out by the government of Iran.
Biography
Jamshid Sharmahd was born in Tehran in 1955 and moved with his father to Hannover, Germany, where he grew up in a German-Iranian household. He studied to become an electrician and in 1980 briefly returned to Iran where he got married. In 1982, he returned to Germany with his wife and daughter Gazelle Sharmahd.
In 2007, a technical glitch exposed his contributions to the website of the dissident group
Tondar publicly. This led to targeted harassment and assassination attempts against him by the Iranian government.
In July 2020 the Iranian regime kidnapped him during a stopover in Dubai, and took him to Iran where he has been held ever since.
His family claimed that he was going to be executed.
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See also
* List of foreign nationals detained in Iran
Since the Iran hostage crisis, the Islamic Republic of Iran has engaged in a pattern of detaining foreign nationals for extended periods. Dual nationals of Iran and another country are particularly vulnerable to arbitrary detention because the int ...
* Extraordinary rendition
Extraordinary rendition is a euphemism for state-sponsored forcible abduction in another jurisdiction and transfer to a third state. The phrase usually refers to a United States-led program used during the War on Terror, which had the purpos ...
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1955 births
German people of Iranian descent
Iranian prisoners and detainees
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Living people