November 4, 2024
The American Mideast Coalition for Democracy (AMCD) is vehemently condemning the Islamic regime in Iran for allegedly executing Jimmy (Jamshid) Sharmahd, an American national and a Los Angeles resident on October 28 per their own statement issued that day and taking responsibility for the murder.
AMCD announces that it considers the regime responsible for any criminal action they took, including the execution of a decent American freedom advocate. We respect the will of Ms. Gazelle Sharmahd, Jimmy’s daughter, and her family has stated that she and her family will not receive any condolences, cards or flowers before the US Government presents evidence that her father was executed. Her family will make further announcements regarding any public expression while waiting for the process of returning Jimmy’s body to his hometown in Los Angeles. until Jimmy’s body is returned home in Los Angeles.
Chris Como interviews Gazelle here: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=525285610367504
AMCD will comply by M,s Gazelle Sharmahd wishes and stands by her and her family, thanking her for her support to AMCD’s world work and her participation in a joint delegation to the UN in New York where she demanded from the UN to take action to liberate her father and other foreign hostages and political prisoners submitted to torture and executions.
AMCD is outraged at the inaction of the Biden Administration for four years, their refusal to receive Jimmy’s daughter and family at the White House as they received other hostage families before.
Our Coalition demands a full investigation of the Biden-Harris inaction for four years by the next Congress and Administration. AMCD demands the publication of any correspondence between the Administration’s envoys and third-party negotiators and their Islamic Regime counterparts about the case of Jimmy Sharmahd, to inform the public about the refusal of the White House to take action to liberate Mr. Sharmahd from his bullies in Tehran, and the refusal to share any information about this American national neither with his family nor with members of Congress.
AMCD demands that the US Government and the German Government take all steps jointly to repatriate Jimmy’s body is legitimate and has to and precede before any other steps. The family must have a closure and allowing the regime to be in control of a German-American body is not only a breach of international law, but an insult to the dignity of Americans and Germans.
The Office of the U.S. Special Envoy to Iran wrote on X: “We are looking into reports that the Iranian regime has executed German-Iranian dual citizen Jamshid Sharmahd, which, if true, would represent the latest abhorrent act in the regime’s long history of transnational repression and accelerating rate of executions. Sharmahd should never have been imprisoned in the first place. His kidnapping and rendition, as well as sham trial and reports of torture, were reprehensible. We will continue to get to the bottom of these reports and stand with the international community in holding the regime accountable for its horrific abuses.”
To which Ms. Sharmahad replied: “Is the State Department truly still denying that my father #JamshidSharmahd is an AMERICAN with no connections at all to America and US laws, such as the Levinson Act? At this critical moment, are you seriously trying to shift responsibility to Germany? Where is your shame? Where is your compassion? Let us make it clear to every stakeholder – government, media, and civil society – that has either remained silent or actively censored the truth: YOU HAVE HELPED TIGHTEN THE NOOSE AROUND #JIMMYSHARMAHD’S NECK. Jimmy Sharmahd is a German-American patriot, who while living the American dream, raising a family and providing, was also fighting against jihadist terrorism every single day even right here in America and California. Jimmy was kidnapped and abandoned—held hostage for four years while you did NOTHING, and was left behind every time the US or EU negotiated with the terrorists. YOU left him to die, while the Biden-Harris Administration handed $6 billion to his captors and, if confirmed, his murderers. We will not rest until every responsible party is held accountable, this includes people in Europe and the UAE who were involved in this matter.”
AMCD’s senior advisor Dr Walid Phares said: “The killing of Jimmy Sharmahd as admitted in public by the Khomeinist regime is a terror criminal act that should be presented -as one criminal case added to many others- to an International Special Tribunal on Crimes against Humanity and War Crimes perpetrated by the organs of the “Islamic Republic” (Islamic Regime) that should be formed as soon as possible by the United Nations to try the regime for its multi decades mass crimes against its own people and the citizens of other nations in the region and in the free world. The US, Europe and other willing Governments must introduce demands at the UN Security Council to initiate such tribunal.”
John Hajjar, co=chair of AMCD said: “Millions of Mideast Americans in the United States condemn all the crimes against humanity perpetrated by the Islamic Regime against Iranians, Arabs and Middle Easterners in the region and in their diaspora and ask the Congress to vote for a resolution on Sharmhad’s dossier in preparation for a legislation aimed at protecting Middle East Americans from the threat of the regime. “
Tom Harb, co-chair of AMCD said: “The abject crime committed against Jimmy Sharmahd, started in August of 2020 when he was abducted from Dubai and taken to Iran via two countries, the UAE and Oman, where he was tortured for four years, sentenced to death by a sham court, then used in a judicial scam where he was sentenced by the regime to pay billions along with US leaders. His so called execution is a state crime that should be prosecuted internationally.”
Gazelle Sharmahd, who has led a relentless campaign to free him, is now the successor to her father’s work, as a freedom advocate and activist leader committed to Jimmy’s ideals and struggle for the liberation of Iran and the Middle East from Jihadism, oppression and terror. AMCD and the communities that are represented in the coalition is in full support of her efforts and in the memory of her father’s ideas