Gazelle Sharmahd, the daughter of the executed German Jamshid Sharmahd, accuses the Iranian Mullah regime of carrying out a “genocide-more precisely, a political purge” against its own people. She cited videos and news reports that continue to leak despite the near‑complete shutdown of the internet. According to Sharmahd, the footage shows a state of martial law: Iranian militias from Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces patrol the streets, chanting in Arabic, “We serve you, Khamenei”. She contends that these foreign Islamist militias reflect a foreign occupation rather than a legitimate Iranian government.
Living in Los Angeles, Sharmahd calls the mass “lynch‑murders” and the use of machine‑gun fire against civilians not only war crimes but crimes against humanity. She notes that, even at great personal risk, people are organizing resistance and turning funerals into revolutionary gatherings. “The only way to stop the killings is a targeted military strike against the headquarters of the Revolutionary Guards” she says, adding that preparations are already underway to seize ministries and liberate the country from within once promised support arrives.
Sharmahd urges Germany-its largest trade partner and a nation with historic responsibility-to establish a tribunal modeled on the Nuremberg Trials. She argues that her father’s case, currently before the German public prosecutor, could serve as a precedent for issuing arrest warrants against regime officials on European soil. She maintains that sanctions, fact‑finding missions, and diplomatic isolation are “totally inadequate when genocide is underway”.