The scientist, who was born in 1977, went missing after taking a pilgrimage to Mecca in 2009. Last year, his father told the BBC’s Farsi-language service that his son had been held at a secret site.
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He was later arrested and sentenced to 10 years in prison for espionage.
On Tuesday, Iran said it had executed a number of criminals, mainly militants from the country’s Kurdish minority.
However, Iranian authorities have remained largely silent on the subject since then. Later, Amiri offered up a contradictory statement, saying he was comfortable in the US. It is understood he has been detained by the Iranian government ever since. The U.S. actively tried to recruit nuclear scientists to defect.
The Foreign Office spokeswoman said former Prime Minister David Cameron had repeatedly raised the case with his Iranian counterpart. At the end of the month, a third video was posted in which he claimed he escaped USA custody and was in Virginia.
Although in a 2010 video on state TV, Amiri himself said he had fled from USA agents. He was feted upon his return to Tehran, lavished with attention at an airport press conference also attended by high-ranking officials, as the Associated Press reported, and insisted that his research work was not part of any confidential government program.
In the second video, released on YouTube, Amiri said he had chose to continue his studies in the US. But soon, another clip contradicted that, and he appeared at the Pakistani Embassy.
“By taking his family hostage, exerting pressure on his family and making bogus promises, the regime compelled Amiri to return to Iran in 2010, but imprisoned him despite promises to the contrary”, it said.
The senator said this lapse proves she is not capable of keeping the country safe. While Amiri said he had been abducted, US officials said instead that he had been offered $5 million to cooperate with the Central Intelligence Agency, but was free to go home if he pleased, the Washington Post reported.
In 2009, Amiri travelled to the USA after making a Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. He was then greeted by Iranian officials, but since then there was no information on what happened to him. Many newspapers published accounts of his return on their front pages and some suggested a movie be made from his story.
They welcomed him home in 2010 as a hero.
“I was under the harshest mental and physical torture”, he said.
Amiri was given a hero’s welcome when he arrived at Imam Khomeini airport in Tehran in 2010, portrayed as somone who had fled U.S. captivity.
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The revelation could cause further political damage to Clinton, who was already on the defensive Sunday after commenting oddly last week that she had “short-circuited” in a statement related to her honesty about the email scandal.
