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Iran reportedly executes California man amid ongoing execution spree: 'Murdered by the regime'
The Islamic Republic of Iran on Monday reportedly executed the journalist Jamshid Sharmahd, who was a resident of California and a sharp critic of the regime in Tehran, according to The Associated Press.
The Iranian regime’s judiciary Mizan website announced that the 69-year-old Sharmahd was killed on Monday morning.
Sharmahd’s daughter, Gazelle, who lives in California, previously told Fox News Digital the Iranian regime is “scapegoating an innocent man” over bombing allegations, and spoke of his affinity for the United States.
She told Fox News Digital in August, 2023, “My dad chose the United States as his home, worked hard, followed all the rules, belongs to a family of four generations around him of U.S. citizenship, lived here for 20 years as a tax-paying, law-abiding resident and would already have his citizenship if it wasn’t for the terrorists and qualifies as a U.S. national under the Levinson law.”
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Iran reportedly executed California resident journalist Jamshid Sharmahd, a sharp critic of the regime in Tehran. (Gazelle Sharmahd)
The Levinson Act defines a “United States national” as a “lawful permanent resident with significant ties to the United States.” According to the State Department, the definition applies to non-U.S. citizens.
The act was named after Robert Levinson, a retired FBI agent and private investigator who disappeared from an Iranian island in 2007. Levinson was held hostage and was declared dead in 2020 when he was said to have died in Iranian custody. His family blamed the Iranian regime for his capture and imprisonment.
Fox News Digital reported that the Biden administration faced intense criticism for reportedly abandoning Sharmahd and punting his case over to Germany. Sharmahd is a German citizen. According to critics of Germany’s Iran policy, the German Green party foreign minister Annalena Baerbock failed to use her country’s economic and political leverage to secure Sharmahd’s release.
Fox News Digital sent press queries to the German foreign ministry.
Sharmahd survived an assassination attempt in California in which an Iranian agent was convicted of the planned murder. He was then kidnapped by the Iranian regime in Dubai in 2020 as part of a business trip.
The Iranian regime-controlled website Mizan claimed, without evidence, that Sharmahd committed “multiple terrorist acts at the direction of his masters in the intelligence services of U.S. and Israel.”
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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in split with anti-execution protest. (Getty Images)
Lawdan Bazargan, an Iranian-American human rights activist and expert on the clerical regime, told Fox News Digital, “In 1988, after the Islamic Republic of Iran was forced to accept a cease-fire with Iraq, it exacted brutal revenge by executing over 5,000 political prisoners, including my brother, Bijan, who had already served years behind bars. The world stood by in silence, failing to hold the regime accountable. Jamshid Sharmahd’s execution is now another diversion, covering the regime’s failures against Israel and the losses suffered by Hezbollah and Hamas.”
She added, “If the world remains silent again, more innocent Iranian prisoners will be killed. The global community must unite against this terrorist regime – Germany and other European nations should expel Iranian diplomats, close the Islamic Republic of Iran’s embassies that act as terror safe houses, and declare the IRGC a terrorist organization. The U.S. must also use every tool at its disposal to pressure Iran into halting these executions.”
Amnesty International noted that Sharmahd “was convicted of the charge of ‘corruption on earth’ which is not clearly defined in law, and as such contravenes the principle of legality” and termed his trial “grossly unfair.”
Jamshid Sharmahd attends his trial at the Revolutionary Court, in Tehran, Iran, Feb. 6, 2022. (Koosha Mahshid Falahi/Mizan News Agency via AP)
The British human rights group added, “Since July 2020, the Iranian authorities have been subjecting him to enforced disappearance, torture and other ill-treatment, including through prolonged solitary confinement and denial of adequate health care.”
Tehran’s opaque justice system claims Sharmahd played a role in a 2008 terrorist attack at a mosque in Shiraz, Iran, that left 14 dead and more than 200 injured.
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.”
Jason Poblete, the attorney for Jamshid Sharmahd, wrote on X, “We are receiving reports that the Islamic Republic of Iran has carried out the death sentence against U.S. Legal Permanent Resident and Californian Jamshid Sharmahd.” He added that the family requests privacy until the facts are confirmed.
Iranian journalist and human rights activist Vahid Beheshti blasted the Iranian regime on X, stating in part that Jamshid Sharmahd “was murdered today by the regime of the Islamic Republic.”
Fox News Digital reached out to the U.S. State Department for a comment.
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Some good news for air travellers. Many European airports are finally ditching the controversial 100 millilitre limit on cabin bag liquids, marking the end of an era of minuscule, overpriced creams and shampoos.
It follows the rollout of new CT security scanners, which provide high-resolution 3D visuals detecting both solid and liquid explosives. Last July, the EU Commission said that a move to scrap the rule across the whole bloc is also in the pipeline.
The 100ml limit was introduced in Europe and beyond in 2006, after UK police had foiled an Islamist plot to blow up transatlantic flights using liquid bombs hidden inside soft drink bottles.
Which airports let you fly with liquids of up to 2L?
With the new rules, people would be able to carry up to 2 litres per single container in their cabin bag.
But travellers should carefully read the cabin bag rules before packing. Many EU and European airports (actually, most of them) haven’t complied yet.
United Kingdom: Widespread CT scanner use
London Heathrow, the continent’s busiest airport, was the latest to raise the liquid limit, only a few weeks ago, enforcing it across all its terminals. It followed other British hubs like London Gatwick, Birmingham, Belfast and Edinburgh.
London Stansted isn’t there yet, but passengers can leave their liquids inside their bags without placing them in an external plastic container. The same applies to London City Airport and Luton.
Germany: Patchy adoption in Frankfurt, Berlin and Munich
Munich airport authorities told Europe in Motion that the limit has been increased to 2L “at 15 security lanes in Terminal 2 and five lanes in Terminal 1”.
The remaining lanes “do not yet have modern CT technology”, so “the 100ml limit continues to apply”, they said.
Similarly, at Frankfurt Airport, only “some security checkpoints are already using new CT scanners that allow up to 2 litres”.
The same applies to Berlin Brandenburg, where 2L is allowed only in 24 security lanes.
“In 2026, we will begin the refurbishment of the remaining security lanes in the main hall of Terminal 1,” Berlin airport authorities told us, while they continue to recommend passengers to stick to 100ml “to ensure a smooth process”.
Italy: Ongoing rollout in north and centre
Good news for tourists visiting Italy soon for the Winter Olympics, as travelling with liquids of up to 2L is now allowed atMilan Linate,Bologna, Rome Fiumicino, Milan Malpensa (Terminal 1 only), and Turin (for fast-track passengers only).
Other European airports that have increased the liquid limit
Passengers can carry liquids of a maximum of 2L also going through Dublin, Prague Vaclav Terminal 2, Vilniusand Kaunas (Lithuania),Kraków and Poznań (Poland), Cluj (Romania), Denmark’s Billund and Malta.
Which other airports plan to raise the limit and which don’t?
Amsterdam Schiphol, Europe’s third busiest airport, and Barcelona El Prat told Europe in Motion that they are following European regulations, but didn’t elaborate on whether they would raise the limit to 2L in the future.
Brussels Zaventem also doesn’t envisage changes: “We are monitoring technological developments, but at the moment there are no concrete plans to adapt the security equipment,” they told us.
Likewise, at airports in Paris, Marseille, Madrid, Athens and Lisbon, the limit for liquid containers stays 100ml.
Athens plans to introduce the new 2L scanners in early 2027, once expansion works at Eleftherios Venizelos are completed, authorities told us, while Paris airports aim to be fully ready by 2030.
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Stellan Skarsgård Crashes Two Alexander Skarsgård Sketches on ‘SNL,’ Playing a Screaming Dad and a Goofy Dramatic Actor
Alexander Skarsgård was joined, on his “Saturday Night Live” hosting debut, by his father.
Skarsgård had been stoic about what’s going on in his career: He didn’t mention his new films “Pillion” or “The Moment” in his monologue, during which he mimed playing the sax along with the “SNL” band.
Later, in a sketch seeming to play off Stellan Skarsgård‘s success this year in “Sentimental Value,” Alexander and Chloe Fineman played cast members in a Scandinavian drama (titled “Stench of a Family”) who couldn’t help but cut up between takes, laughing at the absurdity of the story and their situation. Their characters’ father, who wants to die, is lying in a bathtub waiting to say goodbye. Once the two walk into the bathroom set, they find Stellan, concealed beneath the water with a fake Incredible Hulk prop on his hand. He provides the scene’s final joke, breaking the tension once and for all by raising his Hulk fist into the air.
Watch the sketch below.
Stellan proved himself to play against his image there, and in a sketch lampooning the practices of immigrant parents, in which Alexander played a stoic Finn, whose only memory of affection from his father was accidentally touching knees in a sauna. He was joined, at the end of the sketch, by his real-life father, screaming, “The shame is yours! Live with it!”
The episode’s musical guest, Cardi B, showed up in this sketch as well, playing the wife of the character played by Marcello Hernández. In a wig with rollers in, Cardi grabbed the cigarette out of Hernández’s hand and made her own case as a potential future host.
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The U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Saturday alerted U.S. citizens of ongoing security operations north and south of the embassy and in Croix-de-Bouquets.
Heavy gunfire was reported in the Haitian capital, prompting U.S. government personnel to halt all movements, according to an alert from the Department of State.
The embassy remains open for emergency services.
Officials urged nearby U.S. citizens to avoid the area and monitor local media for updates.
Police patrol the streets of Port-au-Prince amid rampant gang violence, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (Reuters/Ralph Tedy Erol/File Photo)
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Armed gangs control large portions of Port-au-Prince and surrounding areas, according to the U.S. State Department and the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH).
Croix-de-Bouquets, one of the areas referenced in Saturday’s security alert, has long been considered a “400 Mawozo” gang stronghold.
“400 Mawozo” gang leader Joly Germine, 34, of Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti, was sentenced to life in prison in December for his role in the 2021 abduction of 16 American citizens, including five children, Fox News Digital previously reported.
Police stop at a car to inspect in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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The victims, with Ohio-based Christian Aid Ministries, were on their way back from an orphanage when they were taken hostage, according to the Justice Department.
The State Department currently maintains a Level 4 “Do Not Travel” advisory for Haiti, citing kidnapping, crime, terrorist activity, civil unrest and limited health care.
Residents run past burning tires in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (Clarens Siffroy/AFP via Getty Images)
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The State Department did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Fox News Digital’s Ashley Carnahan contributed to this report.
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