“Shahram Amiri was hanged for revealing the country’s top secrets to the enemy (US)”, Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejeie was quoted as saying by the Mizan Online news site.
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According to US officials who spoke to the Associated Press in 2010, Amiri, who had previously run a radiation detection program in Iran, willingly agreed to provide the Central Intelligence Agency with intel about Iran’s nuclear capabilities in exchange for $5 million, although he never acquired the money.
Amiri, a university researcher working for Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, disappeared during a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia in 2009, and later surfaced in the United States.
Mike reported that when Amiri returned home in 2010, he said at a news conference that the “CIA drugged and abducted him” and then “used psychological torture to keep him in the U.S”.
Hillary Clinton, who was then US secretary of state, stressed that Amiri had been in the United States “of his own free will”. When he returned in 2010, he was welcomed with flowers by government leaders and even went on the Iranian talk-show circuit.
But then, likely motivated by threats against his family still in Iran, including his wife and young son, Amiri went public with YouTube video messages, saying that the U.S. had kidnapped him and used torture to force him to betray his country. In exchange, economic sanctions against Iran were lifted.
“While still in Iran, he was also one of the sources for a much-disputed National Intelligence Estimate on Iran’s suspected weapons program, published in 2007”, the report said.
It was recently reported that the USA gave around $400 million cash payment to Iran.
Marziyeh Amiri, Shahram’s mother has confirmed the execution on 6 Aug, speaking to a number Persian media. The nuclear scientist returned to his homeland, but the Iranian government detained Amiri since 2010.
In July 2010, Shahram Amiri went to the Iran interests section of the Embassy of Pakistan in Washington DC asking for help.
The revelations embarrassed both countries-that the U.S. could penetrate Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, and that a U.S. intelligence asset would then reveal the plot.
Amiri’s case indirectly found its way back into the spotlight in the USA past year with the release of State Department emails sent and received by Hillary Clinton on her private server. “We should recognize his concerns and frame it in terms of a misunderstanding with no malevolent intent”. The Associated Press could not immediately reach his family. Our person won’t be able to do anything anyway.
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Iran a year ago reached a deal with six world powers including the U.S.to curtail its nuclear activities and submit to outside monitoring, in exchange for the removal of global sanctions. “This could lead to problematic news stories in the next 24 hours”.
