Iran executes ringleader of US-based group over terror attacks

Iran has executed the ringleader of a US-based terror group carrying behind heinous operations against the Iranian nation.

Jamshid Sharmahd, who was convicted last year, was executed on Monday, according to the Iranian Judiciary's Mizan news agency citing a statement by the Tehran Prosecutor-General's Office on Monday.

At the behest of his masters in Western intelligence agencies, Sharmahd has for years designed numerous terrorist operations against the Islamic Republic of Iran. the statement said.

Sharmahd, who was responsible for the martyrdom and injury of hundreds of innocent Iranians, was ultimately sentenced by a competent court and received his due punishment on October 28, it added.

The Revolutionary Court of Tehran had handed Sharmahd the death sentence for committing "corruption on earth” by planning and orchestrating terrorist acts in the Islamic Republic.

Iran’s Judiciary issues death penalty for ringleader of US-based terror group

The Iranian Judiciary sentences to death the ringleader of a US-based terrorist group for corruption on earth.

The terrorist ringleader, who held German citizenship but was also a US resident, led the Tondar (Thunder) pro-monarchist group.

He was behind a series of terrorist attacks, including a 2008 attack against a religious congregation center in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz, which killed 14 people, including 5 women and an infant, and wounded hundreds more.

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Upon arrest, the ringleader of a US-based anti-Iran terrorist group admits providing explosives for a 2008 attack in southern Iran.

Iranian intelligence officers have been successfully able to arrest many  foreign-linked spies involved in acts of sabotage against the nation and facilities in the past decades. The arrests made in Iran have included members of two Mossad-linked spy teams.

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