“You mentioned the Iranian scientist that was recently executed”.
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It would appear possible that discussion on an unclassified and quite possibly hacked email system about a person who was hanged as a spy will have a chilling effect on others who might want to engage in espionage for the United States.
Cotton spoke in reference to two emails about Amiri that were sent to Clinton’s private server during her tenure as Secretary of State. And I think her judgment is not suited to keep this country safe.
Iranian officials previously touted Amiri’s claim he had been abducted by USA agents while on a pilgrimage to holy sites in Saudi Arabia.
Fast forward to almost a year later, when a series of videos surfaced online of a man claiming to be Amiri.
Having appeared in the United States, the Iranian nuclear scientist said he had been kidnapped and put under “intense psychological pressure to reveal sensitive information”.
Amiri surfaced in 2010 in videos posted online from an undisclosed location in the United States.
The Stuxnet computer virus, widely believed to be a joint U.S. As for the conviction being upheld, Ejehi says that the decision was made in an appeals court, and went on to confirm that the Iran native indeed had access to lawyers to help him with his case.
The convoluted ordeal that ended with Mr. Amiri’s execution took place during a period of heightened concern in the USA and other Western countries that Iran was expanding its nuclear program and seeking to develop a nuclear weapon.
The execution is expected to possibly have an outcome on the 2016 US elections, given that the foggy details of the case began to unfold during Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s period as Secretary of State. In a video aired by Iranian state TV in 2010, Amiri said he had fled from U.S. agents. Despite the happy greeting, Amiri was later taken into custody. He was then executed and his body, with rope burns around his throat, was sent to his mother.
Iran executed a nuclear scientist who defected to the US and returned to the Islamic Republic under mysterious circumstances a year later, an official said Sunday, acknowledging for the first time that the nation secretly detained, tried and convicted a man authorities once heralded as a hero. Meanwhile, after Clinton’s email scandal was investigated, it was discovered she had talked about Amiri to other USA officials over the unsecured server.
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Once employed at a university research program which the European Union had linked to Iran’s defense ministry, Amiri disappeared in 2009 while on pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia. “If he has to leave so be it”. But Ejei did not shed light on why Amiri’s detention and trial were carried out in secret or on the extent of the alleged information he passed along. Tom Cotton asserted that Amiri was discussed in e-mails sent and received by Hillary Clinton, which he argued may have led directly to Amiri’s execution.
