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Germany orders 3 Iranian consulates to shut after an Iranian German prisoner is executed

Germany orders 3 Iranian consulates to shut after an Iranian German prisoner is executed | iNFOnews.ca
People commemorate Iranian-German Jamshid Sharmahd during a protest following his execution in Iran, near the Foreign Ministry in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Oct. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
Original Publication Date: October 31, 2024 6:41AM
Publication Updated: April 11, 2025 6:12PM

BERLIN (AP) — Germany ordered the closure of all three Iranian consulates in the country on Thursday in response to the execution of Iranian German prisoner Jamshid Sharmahd, who lived in the United States and was kidnapped in Dubai in 2020 by Iranian security forces.

Sharmahd, 69, was put to death in Iran on Monday on terrorism charges, the Iranian judiciary said. That followed a 2023 trial that Germany, the U.S. and international rights groups dismissed as a sham.

The decision to close the Iranian consulates in Frankfurt, Hamburg and Munich, announced by Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, leaves the Islamic Republic with only its embassy in Berlin.

Germany orders 3 Iranian consulates to shut after an Iranian German prisoner is executed | iNFOnews.ca
FILE – Iranian-German national and U.S. resident Jamshid Sharmahd attends his trial at the Revolutionary Court, in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Feb. 6, 2022. (Koosha Mahshid Falahi/Mizan News Agency via AP, File

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