The execution announced on Monday had already provoked tit-for tat diplomatic expulsions

Sharmahd was one of several Iranian dissidents abroad in recent years either tricked or kidnapped back to Iran as Tehran began lashing out after the collapse of its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers including Germany.

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…

Iran protests Germany's closure of consulates in response to execution of German-Iranian Jamshid Sharmahd, calling it irrational and unjustified.

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.

Germany’s diplomatic relations with Iran have reached “more than a low point,” Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said.