After the death penalty verdict Tuesday against Jamshid Sharmahd, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said in a statement that Berlin was "declaring two Iranian embassy staff members to be persona non grata" and "ordering them to leave Germany". Mizan said Sharmahd planned to commit 23 "terrorist" acts, of which he succeeded in five, including the bombing of a mosque in the southern city of Shiraz on April 12, 2008, which killed 14 people and wounded 300 others. "Kidnapping and threatening to kill Jamshid Sharmahd based on an unlawful sentence is the Islamic Republic's attempt to blackmail the European Union with the aim of easing the political pressure," he said in a statement