German opposition MP and foreign affairs committee member Norbert Roettgen tweeted that “he was kidnapped by the regime and now sentenced to death also to put pressure on Germany.” “The government must now make it unmistakably clear that they do not accept this arbitrary judgment and are fighting for the life,” he wrote on Twitter. In 2009, convicted and hanged three men for the Shiraz bombing, claiming they had links to the monarchist group and had taken their orders from “a CIA agent” based in the US in an attempt to assassinate a senior official.
