Washington D.C. – Fox News, April 13, 2025
Family member of murdered Jimmy Sharmahd urges US, German authorities to arrest Iranian officials.
The daughter of a German-American journalist who died in the custody of Iran and whose body was returned mutilated and missing body parts urged the Trump administration on Sunday to pull the plug on nuclear talks with the Islamic Republic.
Jamshid “Jimmy” Sharmahd, 69, a California resident who was kidnapped while on a business trip in the United Arab Emirates in 2020 and taken to Tehran, was executed in October. His daughter, Gazelle Sharmahd, told Fox News Digital his body was returned bearing horrific signs of torture.
“I traveled to Berlin with my family not to embrace my freed father after five years of torture by these terrorists, but to receive his mutilated body in a box,” she said. “The regime did not only torture my father physically and mentally for more than 1,500 days as the U.S. Biden administration and Germany was watching idly, even after killing my father they cut out his organs.”
Gazelle Sharmahd said an autopsy report showed her father’s tongue, larynx, thyroid and heart were missing, and he only had two teeth.
