UK – Iran International, November 03, 2024
Gazelle Sharmahd, daughter of Jamshid Sharmahd, a German citizen and US resident, is raising urgent questions about the reported death of her father, who had been detained in Iran since 2020.
In an interview with Iran International TV, she revealed that Iranian state media has yet to confirm his death through an official announcement, leaving her family without direct evidence of what happened to him.
The German and US governments, according to Gazelle, were informed of her father’s death by Iranian officials, yet neither has provided her family with proof of his execution.
“We don’t even know where my father’s body is,” she said, underscoring the absence of clarity on his fate. “Has anyone seen his body? We have seen no evidence. The German government simply accepted the word of the terrorist regime of the Islamic Republic when they said my father was dead.”
Jamshid Sharmahd, a 68-year-old software developer and California resident, was abducted by Iranian operatives during a visit to the United Arab Emirates in 2020 and forcibly brought to Iran. Accused of endangering national security, he was sentenced to death by an Iranian court in February 2023. According to his daughter, Iranian authorities subjected her father to prolonged solitary confinement, physical abuse, and denial of necessary medications, leading her to believe that the severe treatment was intended to end his life prematurely.
