Last Updated: March 01, 2023, 19:34 IST
Germany introduced final week that it was expelling two Iranian diplomats in response to the demise sentence handed down in opposition to twin nationwide Jamshid Sharmahd, who can be a US resident.
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Foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani stated the 2 diplomats had been ordered out in response to “interference… by the German government in the internal and judicial affairs” of Iran
Iran ordered the expulsion of two German diplomats Wednesday in a tit-for-tat transfer after Berlin took comparable motion in response to a demise sentence handed down in opposition to a twin nationwide.
Foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani stated the 2 diplomats had been ordered out in response to “interference… by the German authorities in the interior and judicial affairs” of Iran.
Germany announced last week that it was expelling two Iranian diplomats in response to the death sentence handed down against dual national Jamshid Sharmahd, who is also a US resident.
“The Iranian regime is fighting its own people in every way possible and shows no respect for human rights,” Chancellor Olaf Scholz stated on the time.
Germany criticised Iran’s retaliatory transfer on Wednesday.
“Their expulsion is bigoted and unjustified, they’ve carried out nothing flawed,” a foreign ministry spokesman in Berlin said.
Sharmahd, 67, had been convicted of taking part in a job in a 2008 mosque bombing in the southern metropolis of Shiraz, which killed 14 individuals and wounded 300.
His family has rejected the charges in the strongest terms and asked Berlin to “act immediately” to avoid wasting “his life”.
The Iranian courts do not recognise dual citizenship.
The judiciary said Sharmahd had planned to commit 23 “terrorist” acts, of which he succeeded in 5.
Prosecutors charged that he had established contact with “FBI and CIA officers” and had “attempted to contact Israeli Mossad agents”.
He is accused of main the Tondar group that goals to topple the Islamic republic and is outlawed as a “terrorist” organisation by the government.
Iran is holding at least 17 Western citizens, most of them dual nationals, including Sharmahd.
Human rights groups say they are part of a policy of hostage-taking by Iran to extract concessions from foreign governments.
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