Published October 29,2024
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Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Tuesday slammed his German counterpart Annalena Baerbock and EU chief Josep Borrell over their critism of Iran’s execution of Iranian-German Jamshid Sharmahd.
On Monday, Iran executed 69-year-old German-Iranian Sharmahd, who was sentenced to dying in February 2023 for the capital offence of “corruption on Earth”. The sentence was later confirmed by the Iranian Supreme Court.
Sharmahd had been convicted of taking part in a job in a 2008 mosque bombing within the southern metropolis of Shiraz, during which 14 folks had been killed and 300 wounded.
His household mentioned he was seized by Iranian authorities in 2020 whereas travelling via the United Arab Emirates.
Iran, which doesn’t recognise twin citizenship, introduced his arrest after a “complex operation”, with out specifying how, the place or when he was seized.
“No terrorist enjoys impunity in Iran … A German passport does not provide impunity to anyone, let alone a terrorist criminal,” Araghchi mentioned in a submit on X, urging Baerbock to cease “with the gaslighting”.
Araghchi additionally accused the German authorities of being an “accomplice in the ongoing Israeli genocide,” including that Berlin was a high “provider of lethal weapons to Israel for its genocidal campaign in Gaza and carnage in Lebanon”.
Baerbock mentioned Sharmahd’s killing confirmed that an “inhumane regime rules in Tehran” and vowed that it “would have serious consequences”.
Borrell in the meantime mentioned that the European Union “is considering measures in response” to Sharmahd’s execution.
“Europe only stands for hypocrisy,” mentioned Araghchi in a separate submit on X, accusing the EU of failing to take measures to “end the killing of more than 50k Palestinians in Gaza” or “to allow 1.5m refugees in Lebanon to return to their homes”.
On Tuesday, Berlin summoned Iran’s cost d’affaires to “convey its strong protest against the actions of the Iranian regime”.
The German ambassador in Tehran additionally protested to the Iranian international ministry and was then recalled to Berlin for consultations.
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Kaynak: AFP
Source: www.anews.com.tr