Iran has executed German-Iranian dissident Jamshid Samahed after being convicted of “leading a terrorist campaign”, state media reported.
Samad, who was sentenced to death last year for “corruption of the earth”, was accused of leading the U.S.-based pro-monarchist group the Majlis of Iran.
He has denied the accusations and his family insists he is only a spokesman for the group, also known as “Tondar” (“Thunder” in Farsi).
Shamahed, who lives in the United States, is believed to have been kidnapped by Iranian agents in Dubai in 2020 and forcibly taken to Iran via Oman.
Amnesty International claims he was forced to confess and told his family he had been tortured in detention.
According to the human rights group, Sharmad created a website to publish statements from KAI, a little-known American group that seeks to restore the monarchy that was overthrown in the 1979 Islamic revolution.
However, Iranian authorities say he was the leader of Tondar and “planned 23 terrorist attacks”, “five of which were successful”, including the 2008 bombing of a mosque in Shiraz that killed 14 people.
When Shamahed was sentenced in February last year, German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock condemned it as “absolutely unacceptable”.
Iran’s judiciary Mizan website said on Monday that he was executed on Sunday with the approval of the Supreme Court.
