US envoy visits family of German-Iranian who was given death penalty in Iran

The family of Jamshid Sharmahd, an Iranian-German citizen imprisoned in Iran and sentenced to death, met with a United States representative dealing with Iran on Friday.

I was happy to have a chance to meet Jamshid Sharmahd’s family today. The person named Sharmahd was taken by force in Iran, against what should have happened. The Deputy Special Envoy, Abram Paley, expressed his wish to see Sharmahd being able to see his family again one day. This statement was shared on a social media platform called X, along with a picture of Paley with Sharmahd’s son and daughter.

Sharmahd, a person living in the US for a long time, was taken into custody by Iranian authorities in 2020. The authorities stated that he was the leader of a group that was blamed for carrying out a harmful bombing in the city of Shiraz in 2008. This information was reported by state-run news agencies ISNA and IRNA.

Last February, he was given a punishment of death for doing something bad on Earth. This caused many human rights organizations and Western governments to strongly disagree and criticize. Amnesty International said he was given a sentence following a trial that was extremely unfair.

In April, the Iranian Supreme Court confirmed his punishment of death, which was strongly criticized by the European Union and the United States.

The European Union said that the Iranian authorities did not let them visit Sharmahd, even though he is from Germany.

Earlier this month, the US State Department said that the way the Iranian regime treated Sharmahd was very bad.

He has been given the punishment of death as a result of a legal proceeding that many people have strongly criticized as an unfair trial. And we strongly denounce this type of treatment,” Vedant Patel, who is the second most important spokesperson for the US State Department, stated in a meeting on August 14.

After Paley made a statement, Gazelle Sharmahd asked the US government to assist in releasing her father.

I told the person in charge that I want them to do something. My dad needs to be involved in whatever is decided to release US citizens for free. We will keep asking the Biden Administration to either help everyone or stop negotiating with the people who took my dad,” she said in a statement on X.