An Iranian-American man has been executed in Iran for a crime he allegedly committed in California seven years ago – even though there is no judicial treaty between Iran and the US, making it impossible for Iranian authorities to have gathered information from their American counterparts.
Hamid Sameie, also known as Sam, was hanged last month in Rajaee Shahr prison in Karaj, west of the capital Tehran, after being found guilty in an Iranian court of murdering another dual national in Los Angeles in 2008.
The government-run Iran newspaper reported that the execution took place but provided few details. According to the Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) group, however, Sameie was sentenced to death for the murder of a man identified as Behrouz Janmohammadi. His close associates have told IHR that it was an act of self-defence.
But details of the crime remain hazy. The Los Angeles Times reported in 2008that a 46-year-old man, identified as Abdollah Janmohammadi, was found shot to death in his home in Woodland Hills. “Los Angeles police, responding to a suspicious death report, found Janmohammadi shot multiple times in the head and abdomen about 9.20am [on Friday, 28 November 2008].”
It was not immediately clear if Sameie was charged for the murder in the US – or even sought by police. Despite the Los Angeles Times report, a spokesman for the Los Angeles police department said on Tuesday that case files appeared to show no record of a criminal investigation into the death of a person named Janmohammadi.
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