TEHRAN – After completing all necessary legal procedures, Iran officially transferred the body of Jamshid Sharmad, the leader of the Tondar Terrorist Group, to Germany as the leader of the Tondar Terrorist Group.
The handover was made in response to formal requests from Sharmad’s family and was carried out in accordance with judicial and diplomatic protocols, Iranian news agency Danesh said.
A German citizen and US resident, Sharmad was the mastermind of a pro-religious terrorist group known in Iran for organising and carrying out numerous deadly terrorist attacks against civilians.
One of the most infamous attacks associated with Sharmahd was the 2008 bombing at the Seyed-Ol-Shohada Mosque in the city of southern Shiraz.
Around 800 worshipers were taking part in a sermon by Seid Mohammadian Javinejad, principal of the Rapuyanbesar Cultural Centre, when the powerful bomb exploded.
The explosion injured 215 people and 14 people, including three women, two children and infants, making it one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in Iran’s history.
Investigators said the British-made 8-pound bomb was detonated by remote control, and was enough to kill 1,000 people, but the placement of the explosives next to the column and how the building collapsed had limited the casualties. did.
Sharmad and his Tondal group were also behind the 2010 terrorist bombing at the spirit us of Ayatollah Ruhola Khomeini in the Iranian capital, causing several people to be injured.
Before Sharmad was arrested in 2020, his group planned to carry out several famous and potentially deadly attacks across Iran, according to Iranian Ministry of Intelligence. The efforts were hampered by complex intelligence reports targeting costumes.
Additionally, Sharmahd and his group worked with foreign intelligence agencies to destabilize the country. In March 2024, an Iranian court ordered the Tondar Group to pay $2.5 billion in damages for the 2008 Shiraz bombing, taking responsibility for coordinating a fatal attack on Iranian citizens. The verdict was issued following a lawsuit filed by 116 victims and their families.
Sharmad was sentenced to death after his arrest, but he died last year before he could fulfill his sentence.