According to the ministry of Information, he had “conceived and organized” an attack murderer against a mosque in Shiraz which left 14 people dead in 2008.
Iran announced on Saturday have detained the leader of a group accused by the islamic Republic of being behind an attack deadly attack in a mosque in the south of the country in 2008. Few details were provided about the circumstances which led to the incarceration of Jamshid Sharmahd, such as the date, or even the country where iranian forces have found it.
“Jamshid Sharmahd, leader of the terrorist group Tondar [based] in the United States (…), is now in the hands” of agents of the iranian intelligence services, said Saturday the ministry of Information in a news release, quoted by the State television. “He was directing military operations and sabotage in Iran,” said the ministry.
According to the press release, the individual had been “conceived and organized” an attack murderer against a mosque in Shiraz (south), which left 14 people dead and some 200 injured in 2008. It also planned to conduct several “big projects”, like blow up the dam of Sivand in Shiraz and the shrine of the founder of the islamic Republic, imam Khomeini, during a public ceremony in Tehran, according to the same source.
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the Overthrow of the islamic Republic
Tondar (“thunder” in Persian), also known under the name of Association monarchist of Iran, is a group aiming to overthrow the islamic Republic. According to its website, Sharmahd, born in Tehran in 1955, grew up in a family of iranian-German before they go live in 2003 in the United States, where he distinguished himself by his statements hostile to the islamic Republic and to islam, on satellite tv channels in farsi.
The group is outspoken in its criticism of the Qur’an and is opposed to the prince Réza Pahlavi, eldest son of the last Shah of Iran, who wants to become a king.
In 2009, Iran hanged three men convicted of the bombing in Shiraz, saying they had links with a group of monarchist opposition based abroad and took their orders for an agent in iran to the CIA installed in the United States referred to as “Jamshid”.
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Iran had also hanged himself in 2010, two other alleged members of the group, which had confessed to have obtained explosives and planned to assassinate officials. In October, the iranian authorities had announced it had detained another opponent once exiled in France, Ruhollah Zam, again without giving details. This man, accused of having played an active role in the protests against the government in 2017-2018, was sentenced to death at the end of June for “corruption on earth”.
