US officials told the AP in 2010 that Amiri was paid $5 million to offer the Central Intelligence Agency information about Iran’s nuclear program, though he left the country without the money.
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The CIA paid $5 million to Amiri to provide information on Iran’s nuclear program after defecting, The Washington Post reported, citing unidentified us officials.
Shahram Amiri, an Iranian nuclear scientist attends a news briefing while holding his son Amir Hossein as he arrives at the Imam Khomeini airport just outside Tehran, Iran, after returning from the United States in 2010. He alleged that USA and Saudi officials were complicit in his kidnapping, that Israeli agents were involved in interrogating him, and that he’d been offered $50 million to stay in the United States. United States officials said Amiri had been free to come and go as he pleased, and that he may have returned because of pressures on his family in Iran.
Amiri appeared in a third video posted June 29, 2010, where he said he’d escaped USA custody and had reached Virginia.
Iran agreed to curb its nuclear power activities late previous year in exchange for the lifting of sanctions that had seen its economy crumble.
Critics warned the terms of the agreement negotiated with Iran – essentially created to thwart the development of nuclear weapons – are time-restricted, meaning the worldwide community, to a certain extent, is kicking the can down the road, hoping that Iran will not want to risk being frozen out economically once again.
Amiri disappeared in Saudi Arabia in June 2009 and resurfaced a year later in the United States.
Iran has executed a nuclear scientist who gave the U.S. intelligence about the country’s nuclear capacity.
Senior advisor Jake Sullivan sent Clinton an email about Amiri hours before the scientist appeared at the Embassy: “The gentleman.has apparently gone to his country’s interests section because he is unhappy with how much time it has taken to facilitate his departure”. He then appeared on a number of state television programs and maintained that he was kidnapped by Central Intelligence Agency while in Saudi soil.
Clinton’s emails mentioned the late scientist back in 2010, just a few days before he was set to return to Iran.
“He is free to go”, she said.
Iranian officials welcomed him back to Iran but there has been little information released since.
Four nuclear scientists had been killed from 2010 to 2012, for which Iran blamed Israel and the United States.
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