Posted on 08/02/2020 10:47:11 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Iran said on Saturday it had arrested the head of a US-based “terrorist group” accused of being behind a deadly 2008 bombing in the southern city of Shiraz and planning other attacks.
“Jamshid Sharmahd, who was leading armed and sabotage operations inside Iran, is now in the powerful hands” of Iran’s security forces, state television said, citing an intelligence ministry statement.
It did not elaborate on where or when the alleged leader of the opposition royalist group known as the Kingdom Assembly of Iran, or Tondar (Farsi for Thunder), was detained.
Iran slammed its arch enemy the United States for hosting Sharmahd and “supporting known terrorists who have claimed responsibility for several terrorist acts inside” the country.
“This regime must answer for its support of this terrorist group and other groups and criminals who orchestrate armed, sabotage and terrorist operations against the people of Iran from inside America and spill Iranians’ blood,” a foreign ministry statement said. …
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Interesting, has Iran flipped?
They’ve arrested the BLM leader?
Gotta blame someone! Always an American with Jew-tie thru Israel.
It's What they do.
If you are one of the many Iranians in Iran who have lived in America for a while ( education, work, etc.), you would be wise to leave Iran as soon as possible. All those explosions and the pandemic have made the mullahs desperate and even more paranoid.
Joe Biden has been arrested?
head of a US-based “terrorist group”
Local or national democrat party official would be my guess.
Interesting they arrested him in Shiraz. Some beautiful oriental rugs used to come from Shiraz, before the fanatics got the upper hand. Beautiful patterns, Shiraz.
...accused of being behind a deadly 2008 bombing in the southern city of Shiraz...
What's the rush? Have anything to do with the ongoing destruction of Iran by the mullahcracy?
They arrested a public school teacher?
It’s likely that Iran arrested another American citizen/resident and are going to call him a spy/terrorist for propaganda purposes.
Head of an American terrorist group? I didn’t know we had one of those...I mead the head of one.
He’s ptobably not an american.
Head of an American terrorist group? I didn’t know we had one of those...I mead the head of one.
He’s ptobably not an american.
Update...
From the UK Guardian, Nov 2024:
...The US deputy special envoy for Iran, Abram Paley, condemned the “execution” of Sharmahd as “the latest heinous act in the long history of transnational repression by the Iranian regime”.
“Sharmahd should not have been jailed in the first place,” Paley wrote on X . “His abduction and transfer to Iran, as well as the mock trial and the reports about his torture were heinous.”
Gazelle Sharmahd wrote on social media on Sunday: “Please know that we do not accept condolences until we have received evidence by the German and American authorities of the reported murder of my father and the exact circumstances.”...
No. Same old dame old just doing what they normally do...abduct people, kill dissidents, and pursue witches, ghosts and goblins.
In this case after holding a mock trial and sentencing him to death, announcing the execution... they now claim he died before being executed.
Meanwhile, for 4 years while this guy was being held prisoner, the Biden admin funneled money to Iran.
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