Shahram Amiri was executed for giving “vital information to the enemy”, a spokesman for Iran’s judiciary said, marking the first time Tehran acknowledged it had detained and tried the scientist who quickly went from hero to villain after he returned to Iran.
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Iranian nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri has been executed for passing information to the United States, officials in Tehran confirmed.
The just-released emails, which were sent to Clinton back in 2010, seem to support what State Department sources have long maintained: that Amiri was not abducted, but a defector and paid informant who changed his mind about helping the U.S.
Iranian scientist Shahram Amiri flashes the victory sign as he arrives at the Imam Khomini Airport in Tehran, July 15, 2010. Meanwhile, Iran’s official Fars news service claimed Amiri was actually a double agent, who had obtained secret information from USA intelligence during his stay in the U.S.
Iran, the USA and five other world powers reached a landmark agreement a year ago, under which Iran will scale back its nuclear program to ensure it can not develop nuclear weapons, in exchange, the US would lift economic sanctions on the country. In exchange, western countries lifted strong economic restrictions on Iran. After the release of the videos he walked into the Iranian-interests section at the Pakistani Embassy in Washington and demanded to be sent back home.
“He is free to go”, she said. On July 5, the US Department of Justice cleared Clinton of any criminal charges related to her use of a private email server and account during her term in office as the US secretary of state.
Amiri was convicted in Iran of spying for the United States and was hanged last week, according to the Associated Press.
According to the Washington Post, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) called Amiri’s execution “a desperate attempt by the regime’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to intimidate and terrorize the regime’s nuclear experts and scientists and to prevent them from leaving the country”.
“Per the subject we discussed, we have a diplomatic, “psychological” issue, not a legal issue”, wrote Mr. Morningstar.
FBI Director James Comey said last month that the FBI had found evidence that “the security culture of the State Department in general, and with respect to use of unclassified systems in particular, was generally lacking in the kind of care for classified information that’s found elsewhere in the USA government”. That’s a story American officials say is a “fairy tale”, Mike added. Then he appeared at the Pakistani Embassy wanting to return to Iran.
News about Amiri, born in 1977, had been scant since his return to Iran.
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