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Jamshid Sharmahd (Template:Lang-fa; born 23 March 1955) is a German-Iranian journalist and software engineer. He was born in Tehran and moved with his family to Germany when he was 7 years old. He grew up in a German-Iranian household and is a German citizen since 1995. He established his own software company and in 2003 moved to the United States, where he is a legal resident. In late July 2020, the Intelligence of the Islamic Regime arrested Sharmahd from Dubai and brought him to Iran. The Iranian government alleges Sharmahd is responsible for a 2008 attack on a mosque in Shiraz that killed 14 people and wounded 200 more. It is unclear if such an explosion has really taken place or if it is part if a propaganda program for the persecution of dissidents and Regime critics. He has also been alleged to be a spy of Western Intelligence, which is a common accusation of regime critics and his family denies all accusations. He is a victim of a series of Islamic Regime kidnappings that have taken place in recent years in order to silence the opposition.

Biography

Jamshid Sharmahd was born in Tehran in 1955 and moved with his father to Hannover, Germany, where he grew up in a German-Iranian household. He studied to become an electrician and in 1980 briefly returned to Iran where he got married. In 1982, he returned to Germany with his wife and daughter Gazelle Sharmahd. He continued his education and became a software engineer who build his own company Sharmahd Computing Inc in 1997. His notable work included creating a universal code editor called Unipad. In 2003 Sharmahd created a second base for his company in California, USA, where he has been residing since. Sharmahd closely followed news from Iran and as a human rights activist he was deeply disturbed by the amount of human rights violations and oppressions of people in Iran by the Islamic regime. He follows Iranian dissident outlets in Los Angeles and creates the website tondar.org for the opposition group the kingdom assembly of Iran in 2006. The website is launched through Sharmahd's company server. In 2007 the website's server name suddenly became public, and it is unknown weather this happened due to a security glitch or cyber attacks of the Islamic regime. This outed Sharmahd as the creator of the website and placed him as a target of the Islamic regime's state propaganda. The Islamic regime engaged in targeted harassment and assassination attempts against Sharmahd. In July 2020 the regime kidnapped Sharmahd, during an overlay flight in Dubai, and took him to Iran where he is being held hostage ever since.

See also

• List of foreign nationals detained in Iran
• Extraordinary rendition

References

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• 1955 births
• German people of Iranian descent
• Iranian prisoners and detainees
• Prisoners and detainees of Iran
• German people imprisoned abroad
• Living people