(NewsNation) — The daughter of a man who was executed in Iran says the regime used “barbaric, Mafia-style methods” to “send a message” to Western nations and urged the Trump administration to pay attention.
“His tongue was cut out, his heart was cut out,” Gazelle Sharmahd, daughter of Jamshid Sharmahd, told NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo on Monday.
Gazelle Sharmahd recently saw her father’s body for the first time after he was executed by the Iranian regime last fall. She said he was unrecognizable, “cut into pieces” and “mutilated.”
The German-Iranian 69-year-old, who also had U.S. residency, was kidnapped in Dubai in 2020 by Iranian security forces and sentenced to death for “spreading corruption on Earth.” The conviction stemmed from terror charges that Western governments and his family heavily disputed.
Gazelle Sharmahd wants to meet with President Trump to convey the brutality of the Iranian regime and said her father’s death is a “national security case.”
“This is a direct, Mafia-style message, and all the other terrorist organizations are watching how we react to it and how we react to it will determine how safe Americans will be,” Gazelle Sharmahd said.
Watch the interview with Gazelle Sharmahd in the player above.
