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Execution of German citizen in Iran sparks outrage

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Mark Espiner
October 29, 2024

Iran has executed the Iranian-German national and US resident Jamshid Sharmahd. The 69-year-old had been imprisoned for four years on a terror conviction he received in what Germany and international rights groups denounced as a "sham trial."

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