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Germany urges citizens to leave Iran due to risk of hostage taking
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A demonstrator holds a picture of Iranian-German Jamshid Sharmahd, at the time facing a death sentence in Iran, and with the lettering 'Free Jamshid' during a demonstration for his release in front of the German Foreign Ministry in Berlin, July 31, 2023. (Ina Fassbender/AFP)
BERLIN, Germany — Germany has long had a travel warning for Iran and asked nationals to leave because, as seen from the execution of a German-Iranian national, Tehran takes German citizens hostage, a foreign ministry spokesperson in Berlin says.
“We have long had a travel warning for Iran and a request to Germans in Iran to leave the country because we saw from the Jamshid Sharmahd case that Iran is taking German citizens hostage,” the spokesperson says at a government news conference.
“We want to spare other German citizens this fate.”
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