TEHRAN, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- Iran sentenced the ringleader of the Tondar (Thunder) group to death for planning and directing "acts of terror" in the country, Mizan news agency reported Tuesday.
The ringleader, identified as 67-year-old Jamshid Sharmahd, has a dual Iranian-German nationality and U.S. residency, said the report by Mizan affiliated to the Iranian judiciary.
He had intended to carry out "23 acts of terror," of which only five were conducted, the report added.
The ruling can still be appealed in the supreme court, according to the report.
The Iranian Intelligence Ministry announced Sharmahd's arrest in 2020.
Established by a number of Iranian pro-monarchists in Britain in 2003, the Tondar group is accused of a bombing in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz in 2008, which killed 14 and injured 300 others, and planning other attacks in the country, according to Mizan. ■
