BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, October 30, 2024, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director
As the embattled clerical regime’s machinery of war and terrorism weakens, it is intensifying terror and executions at home to protect itself from a restive nation seeking its overthrow.
On October 29th, Germany recalled its ambassador from Iran to Berlin in protest against the October 28 execution of Jamshid Sharmahd, an Iranian-German prisoner abducted in Dubai by the regime’s forces in 2020. Sharmahd faced a sham trial in 2023, condemned by international rights organizations.
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), condemned the Iranian regime’s kidnapping and execution of abducted individuals.
On November 1, 2020, the Iranian Resistance urged the governments of Sweden, France, and Germany to intervene in the cases of Farajollah Kaab Osayved, Jamshid Sharmahd, and Ruhollah Zam, all abducted by Iran’s terrorist dictatorship and called for their immediate return to these countries.
On October 28, 2024, Mrs. Rajavi again called on these governments to raise these cases at the UN Security Council and to demand accountability for the Iranian regime. She emphasized that if action is delayed or limited to verbal condemnations, the regime will only grow more emboldened in its kidnappings and hostage-taking.
It is long past time for the European Union to designate the clerical regime’s Ministry of Intelligence (MOIS) and the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) as terrorist organizations, something the United States has already done. But it is also important for the U.S. to fully enforce their designations. Their agents and mercenaries should be expelled, and the regime’s embassies, which act as hubs of terrorism and espionage, must be shut down.