Daughter of German-American dissident whose physique was mutilated by Iran calls on Trump to nix nuke talks
The daughter of a German-American journalist who died within the custody of Iran and whose physique was returned mutilated and lacking physique components urged the Trump administration on Sunday to drag the plug on nuclear talks with the Islamic Republic.
Jamshid “Jimmy” Sharmahd, 69, a California resident who was kidnapped whereas on a enterprise journey within the United Arab Emirates in 2020 and brought to Tehran, was executed in October. His daughter, Gazelle Sharmahd, informed Fox Information Digital his physique was returned bearing horrific indicators of torture.
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“I traveled to Berlin with my household to not embrace my freed father after 5 years of torture by these terrorists, however to obtain his mutilated physique in a field,” she stated. “The regime didn’t solely torture my father bodily and mentally for greater than 1,500 days because the U.S. Biden administration and Germany was watching idly, even after killing my father they reduce out his organs.”
Gazelle Sharmahd stated an post-mortem report confirmed her father’s tongue, larynx, thyroid and coronary heart have been lacking, and he solely had two tooth.
Sharmahd’s daughter stated her father had Parkinson’s illness and was being held in isolation. (Sharmahd household)
The daughter, who fruitlessly lobbied the Biden administration to free her father, stated the U.S. and Germany shouldn’t negotiate with a nation able to such atrocities.
“On the day {that a} German-American patriot and hostage was returned in items in a casket, together with his tongue and coronary heart reduce out, barely recognizable to my household and me, Germany and the U.S. think about sitting down with the killers of their twin nationwide hostage,” she stated.
The Trump administration began oblique talks with Iran’s clerical regime on Saturday in Oman, a Mideast nation, the place Jimmy was taken after he was kidnapped within the UAE and later moved to Iran.
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Sharmahd, who was a pointy critic of the regime in Tehran, was thought-about an American nationwide beneath the Levinson Act, in accordance with the household’s lawyer, Jason Poblete, who’s an professional on victims kidnapped by totalitarian regimes.
The Levinson Act defines a “United States nationwide” as a “lawful everlasting resident with vital ties to the USA.” In response to the State Division, the definition applies to non-U.S. residents.
The act was named after Robert Levinson, a retired FBI agent and personal investigator who disappeared from an Iranian island in 2007. Levinson was held hostage and was declared lifeless in 2020 when he was stated to have died in Iranian custody. His household blamed the Iranian regime for his seize and imprisonment.
The FBI stated it obtained this picture of Robert Levinson in April 2011, 4 years after his disappearance. (FBI)
Gazelle Sharmahd referred to as on FBI Director Kash Patel and German authorities to analyze the homicide of her father and challenge arrest warrants for the Iranian regime officers chargeable for his abstract execution.
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She obtained help from the German-Iranian neighborhood. Behrouz Asadi, a distinguished German-Iranian human rights activist, despatched a letter to the German federal prosecutor, Jens Rommel, about Jimmy’s case.
“We urge you to provoke legal investigations towards these accountable within the Islamic Republic of Iran, particularly these instantly or not directly chargeable for his abduction, imprisonment, torture, and in the end his killing,” Asadi wrote.
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Poblete posted on X that Jimmy Sharmahd’s homicide was “the results of a brutal regime appearing with impunity—and of systemic failures by each the USA and Germany, who didn’t do sufficient. That is what occurs when People and different U.S. nationals held hostage/unjustly detained are deserted overseas. As Jimmy begins his journey house, our prayers are with the Sharmahd household. Justice for Jimmy can be pursued—relentlessly and with out pause. We name on the media and all People to NeverForget Jimmy and to maintain US nationals foremost on their minds when discussing hostage points and interesting companions, allies, and adversaries.”
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Sharmahd stated she believes German Christian Democratic celebration politician Friedrich Merz, who is anticipated to turn into chancellor in Might, and President Donald Trump will stand as much as terrorist regimes in methods their predecessors didn’t.
“President Trump is newly elected however has promised to face with hostages and stand as much as jihadists, be it Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis or the most important one, the Islamic regime in Iran,” she stated.
