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DW
02-06-2025
- Entertainment
- DW
DW's 'My Persian Love Story' explores love across cultures
The new fictional video series from DW explores the joys and challenges of a binational relationship between an Iranian student and a German partner. An in-house collaboration between DW's Persian Service and its Life and Style department, the series consists of 15 short-form sketches created specifically for social media. The episodes follow a German-Iranian couple as they navigate everyday life—from their first meeting in Germany to planning a wedding—highlighting both the friction and beauty that can arise when cultures collide. My Persian Love Story humorously tackles everyday situations where cultural misunderstandings can occur, such as who pays on the first date, or the awkwardness of loud nose-blowing in public, offering a light-hearted yet insightful look at how small habits can reveal deeper cultural norms and societal expectations. Filmed in Berlin and presented in both English and Farsi, the series features a diverse cast and bilingual editorial teams. It reflects DW's core values of freedom, tolerance, democracy, women's rights, and cultural diversity. Empowering women through storytelling My Persian Love Story was developed with a special focus on female audiences, particularly in Iran, where access to independent media and social platforms has been increasingly restricted. DW is being blocked in Iran and reaches its audiences in the country by promoting various tools for circumventing censorship. The new series aims to fill a critical gap by offering content that resonates with women and highlights their perspectives in a culturally sensitive yet empowering way. Where to watch it The series was premiered on June 1, 2025, and can be watched on DW's Persian and Euromaxx Instagram channels: @dw_persian | @dw_euromaxx
Yahoo
15-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Gazelle Sharmahd: Iran used ‘barbaric' methods to execute my father
(NewsNation) — The daughter of a man who was executed in Iran says the regime used 'barbaric, Mafia-style methods' to 'send a message' to Western nations and urged the Trump administration to pay attention. 'His tongue was cut out, his heart was cut out,' Gazelle Sharmahd, daughter of Jamshid Sharmahd, told NewsNation's Chris Cuomo on Monday. Gazelle Sharmahd recently saw her father's body for the first time after he was executed by the Iranian regime last fall. She said he was unrecognizable, 'cut into pieces' and 'mutilated.' Jamshid Sharmahd's family wants proof of execution: 'Gov failed us' The German-Iranian 69-year-old, who also had U.S. residency, was kidnapped in Dubai in 2020 by Iranian security forces and sentenced to death for 'spreading corruption on Earth.' The conviction stemmed from terror charges that Western governments and his family heavily disputed. Gazelle Sharmahd wants to meet with President Trump to convey the brutality of the Iranian regime and said her father's death is a 'national security case.' 'This is a direct, Mafia-style message, and all the other terrorist organizations are watching how we react to it and how we react to it will determine how safe Americans will be,' Gazelle Sharmahd 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
11-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Memorial ceremony in Berlin for German-Iranian as questions remain
Almost six months after the death of German-Iranian dual national Jamshid Sharmahd in Iranian custody, relatives and friends held a memorial ceremony in the German capital on Friday. The service at a funeral parlour in the Neukölln district of Berlin was attended by his daughter and son, who live in the United States. Among the guests were German Agriculture Minister Cem Özdemir, and Berlin's deputy mayor Franziska Giffey. In the evening, an Iranian opposition group is planning a solidarity rally for all political prisoners in Iran at the Brandenburg Gate. Sharmahd, a computer expert and entrepreneur, was born in Tehran in 1955, grew up in the northern German city of Hanover and moved to California in 2003, where he was active in an Iranian opposition group in exile. In the summer of 2020, he was abducted under mysterious circumstances while travelling from Dubai to Iran. Iran's judiciary announced at the end of October that Sharmahd would be executed after being sentenced to death in early 2023. He was convicted during a controversial trial following allegations of terrorism, which relatives and human rights activists rejected as baseless. Iran's judiciary later declared that Sharmahd had not been executed but had in fact died in custody. Many questions remain about his death. Last year, his daughter accused the US and German governments of having done nothing to secure her father's release - accusations she repeated at the memorial service. The human rights organization Amnesty International called for an "independent, impartial and effective" investigation into the causes and circumstances of Jamshid Sharmahd's death, which remain unclear following an autopsy.
Local Sweden
08-03-2025
- Politics
- Local Sweden
Sweden asks Iran to immediately free ailing academic on death row
Summoning the Iranian ambassador, Sweden called for Jalali's "immediate release on humanitarian grounds so that he can be reunited with his family" and called for his "immediate access to the medical care he so clearly needs," the foreign ministry said in a statement. The ministry also said it had reiterated a request to visit Jalali in jail. In mid-January, Jalali accused the Swedish government of not taking sufficient action to obtain his release. "It seems to not be a priority for the Swedish officials, what may happen to me as a Swedish citizen while I risk dying either by execution or due to poor health," he said in a message forwarded to AFP by his wife, Vida Mehrannia. His remarks came as German-Iranian Nahid Taghavi was released from Tehran's Evin prison and returned home, just days after Iran released Italian journalist Cecilia Sala. On June 15 last year, Tehran freed two Swedes, Johan Floderus, an EU diplomat who had been held since April 2022, and Saeed Azizi, who was arrested in November 2023, in exchange for Hamid Noury, a former Iranian prisons official serving a life sentence in Sweden. But Jalali, whom Iran sentenced to death in 2017 on espionage charges and was granted Swedish nationality while in jail, was left out of the swap. The government has insisted that it tried to obtain Jalali's release at the same time as Floderus and Azizi. Western countries have for years accused Iran of detaining their nationals on trumped-up charges in a policy of state hostage-taking to use them as bargaining chips to extract concessions. On Friday, the Swedish ministry reaffirmed its opposition to the death penalty and demanded that the sentence passed on the Swedish-Iranian would not be carried out.
Khaleej Times
07-03-2025
- Politics
- Khaleej Times
Sweden calls for 'immediate release' of ailing academic on Iran's death row since 2017
Sweden on Friday demanded the immediate release of Ahmadreza Jalali, an ailing Iranian-Swedish academic on death row in Iran since 2017. Summoning the Iranian ambassador, Sweden called for Jalali's "immediate release on humanitarian grounds so that he can be reunited with his family" and called for his "immediate access to the medical care he so clearly needs," the foreign ministry said in a statement. The ministry also said it had reiterated a request to visit Jalali in jail. In mid-January, Jalali accused the Swedish government of not taking sufficient action to obtain his release. Stay up to date with the latest news. Follow KT on WhatsApp Channels. "It seems to not be a priority for the Swedish officials, what may happen to me as a Swedish citizen while I risk dying either by execution or due to poor health," he said in a message forwarded to AFP by his wife, Vida Mehrannia. His remarks came as German-Iranian Nahid Taghavi was released from Tehran's Evin prison and returned home, just days after Iran released Italian journalist Cecilia Sala. On June 15 last year, Tehran freed two Swedes, Johan Floderus, an EU diplomat who had been held since April 2022, and Saeed Azizi, who was arrested in November 2023, in exchange for Hamid Noury, a former Iranian prisons official serving a life sentence in Sweden. But Jalali, whom Iran sentenced to death in 2017 on espionage charges and was granted Swedish nationality while in jail, was left out of the swap. The government has insisted that it tried to obtain Jalali's release at the same time as Floderus and Azizi. Western countries have for years accused Iran of detaining their nationals on trumped-up charges in a policy of state hostage-taking to use them as bargaining chips to extract concessions. On Friday, the Swedish ministry reaffirmed its opposition to the death penalty and demanded that the sentence passed on the Swedish-Iranian would not be carried out.
