Jamshid Sharmahd at the first hearing of his trial, Tehran, iran, February 6, 2022

Iran’s authorities have executed German-Iranian national and US permanent resident Jamshid Sharmahd.

The Mizan news agency, the outlet of the Iranian judiciary, said the death sentence against Sharmahd, 69, was carried out on Monday “after final confirmation of the court’s decision by the Supreme Court”.

Sharmahd was accused by Iran of heading the pro-monarchist group Tondar, blamed for a 2008 bombing and for planning of other attacks in Iran.

Fourteen Iranians were killed and 210 others wounded in the bombing at the Sayyid al-Shuhada Husseiniya mosque in Shiraz in April 2008.

Sharmahd’s family dismissed as “ridiculous” the claim by Iran’s Intelligence Ministry that he planned the attack.

Sharmahd is believed to have been kidnapped by Iranian agents in Dubai in 2020 and then forcibly taken to Iran.

Gazelle Sharmahd said last year that her father was barely able to walk and talk due to health conditions, including Parkinson’s disease, which were not properly treated by prison authorities.

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said the execution “shows once again what kind of inhumane regime rules in Tehran: a regime that uses death against its youth, its own population, and foreign nationals”.

Baerbock added that Berlin repeatedly made clear “that the execution of a German national would have serious consequences”.

US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said Iran’s treatment of Sharmahd was “reprehensible” with a “sham trial”: “We have long made clear that we oppose the way Iran carries out executions, often in a way that fundamentally violates human rights.”