The family of Jamshid Sharmahd, a German citizen who the Iranian judiciary said was executed in Iran last week, need proof that he was indeed put to death and are open to all possibilities over his fate, his daughter said.

Sharmahd, who was born in Iran but became a German citizen and was a permanent resident in the United States, was executed on October 28 on the charge of "corruption on earth", according to the Mizan Online news website of the Iranian judiciary.

But his US-based daughter, Gazelle Sharmahd, told AFP in a telephone interview the family had no evidence of his execution other than such reports and also had no indication of how his body could be brought home.

Jamshid Sharmahd, 69, was tried and convicted after he was in July 2020 abducted in the United Arab Emirates by Iranian agents and forcibly brought to Iran, according to the family and the UN Working Group on arbitrary detention in a 2022 report.

Iran does not recognise dual citizenship and announced Sharmahd's arrest after a "complex operation", without giving details.

As well as being a German citizen, Jamshid Sharmahd should also be considered a US........

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