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German lawmakers have condemned the execution in Iran of German-Iranian dual national Jamshid Sharmahd on terrorism charges and warned of diplomatic consequences. Sharmahd was executed on Monday morning, according to the Iranian judiciary’s news site Misan. The German government had strongly criticized his sentence and long called for Sharmahd’s release. German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock on Monday sharply condemned the execution, saying Germany had sent a high-level team to Iran several times. “In doing so, we repeatedly made it unequivocally clear to Tehran that the execution of a Ger…