Jamshid Sharmahd

Jamshid Sharmahd (Persian: جمشید شارمهد; born 23 March 1955) is a German-Iranian journalist and software engineer of Iranian descent. He was born in Tehran and moved with his family to West Germany when he was seven years old. He has been a German citizen since 1995.

Sharmahd established his own software company and in 2003 moved to the United States, where he is a legal resident. In late July 2020, the Ministry of Intelligence of the Islamic Republic of Iran kidnapped Sharmahd in Dubai and he was taken to Iran. Prior to his kidnapping, Sharmahd ran a satellite radio station that offered people a space to voice their views on authorities. The Iranian government alleges that Sharmahd is responsible for a 2008 attack on a mosque in Shiraz that killed 14 people and injured 200. However, the regime-controlled media outlet Fars News quoted the Iranian National Security Council in 2008 as saying, "The explosion of a bomb or any explosion carried out by opposition elements, be they internal or foreign, is ruled out. The blast was caused by some munitions used in an exhibition for the Iran-Iraq War martyrs in the mosque." Sharmahd denies all charges. His family also deny all accusations. His abduction is one of a series of kidnappings carried out by the government of Iran.