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Germany’s Foreign Office summoned the head of the Iranian embassy in Berlin on Tuesday to protest “in the strongest terms” the execution of the German-Iranian dual national Jamshid Sharmahd by the Iranian regime. The Foreign Office denounced the “murder” of Sharmahd, and said that the German ambassador in Tehran, Markus Potzel, also appeared before the Iranian foreign minister to protest the killing in “the strongest terms.” Potzel had subsequently been recalled to Berlin by German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock for further consultations, according to the Foreign Office. But a defiant Iran…

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