The Germans expelled two Iranian diplomats. In response, Kayhan Daily is calling not for the expulsion of German diplomats, but the prevention of their expulsion, so that they can be arrested, imprisoned, and likely tortured. That is a vivid illustration of the contrast between the Islamic Republic and a nation that has some minimal respect for basic human decency.
“Iran’s Hardline Daily Calls For Prosecution Of German Embassy Staff,” Iran International, February 23, 2023:
A hardliner newspaper in Tehran has demanded that German embassy staff be banned from leaving Iran in response to expulsion of two Iranian diplomats from Berlin.
The editor and representative of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Kayhan Daily, Hossein Shariatmadari also called for the prosecution of a person he called an “intelligence officer stationed at the German embassy”.
Shariatmadari’s demand is reminiscent of the takeover of the US embassy by radicals in Tehran after the 1979 revolution when dozens of embassy staff were held hostage for 444 days.
This hardliner editor, who is said to be one of the interrogators of political prisoners, added that “The next step should be filing a complaint against the German government at the International Criminal Court for sending terrorists to Iran to massacre the oppressed people of the country.”
Iran’s judiciary sentenced Iranian-German national Jamshid Sharmahd to death on security charges February 20….
However, Shariatmadari claimed, “Sharmahd has been tasked with carrying out terrorist operations by the German government, and the action of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs in summoning the Iranian ambassador and expelling two employees of Iran’s embassy is a type of deception operation to wipe off the traces of the German government’s involvement in this terrorist operation.”
somehistory says
Any German in Iran should beat it out of there immediately. Can’t imagine working for the German government and consenting to be sent to iran in the first place.
did they get hazardous pay? iran is chock-full of ghouls, champing at the bit to do their father’s desires.
If only the population not involved in this murderous regime could be rid of those chidren of the devil.
Barbara says
This sounds like when the US embassy was breached and US employees were taken prisoner for 444 days in 1979. At the same time Canada helped 6 US citizens to escape Iranian capture.
PRCS says
“At the same time Canada helped 6 US citizens to escape Iranian capture.”
Quite a story. Thanks for the reminder.