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Home / News / World News / Iran executes nuclear scientist on the charge of treason
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    Iran executes nuclear scientist on the charge of treason

    Akriti Asthana
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    Last updated on Aug 08, 2016, 04:31 pm
    Iran executes nuclear scientist on the charge of treason
  • Government sources confirmed on Sunday that Iranian nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri was hanged for treason for providing "vital information" to the US.

    Amiri disappeared in Saudi Arabia in 2009 and resurfaced a year later in the US, where he claimed to have been abducted and interrogated by the CIA.

    He returned to Iran a year later where he was given a long prison sentence.

  • In this article
    The Iran Deal The mysterious disappearance of Amiri Amiri returns to Iran What America had to say The Hillary connect Amiri's subsequent hanging by the State of Iran Iran executes nuclear scientist on the charge of treason America's attempts to thwart Iran's nuclear program
  • Information

    The Iran Deal

  • The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action is an international agreement signed in July 2015 between Iran, the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany, and the EU to limit Iran's uranium enrichment in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions.

  • Real-life spy drama

    The mysterious disappearance of Amiri

    The mysterious disappearance of Amiri
  • Shahram Amiri was a radioactive-isotopes expert at Tehran's Malek Ashtar University, which is affiliated to Iran's defence ministry.

    He vanished in 2009 while on a religious pilgrimage in Mecca.

    Iran's then foreign Minister accused the US of abducting him.

    Amiri reappeared in multiple contradictory videos, after which he walked into the Iranian-interests section at Pakistani Embassy in Washington and demanded to be sent home.

  • Back from the US

    Amiri returns to Iran

    Amiri returns to Iran
  • In March 2010, ABC News reported that Amiri had defected to the US as part of an intelligence coup aimed at undermining Iran's nuclear programme.

    After coming back, he received a hero's welcome in Tehran and was portrayed as someone who had fled American captivity.

    In interviews, he described being kidnapped and held against his will by Saudi and American spies.

  • Reaction

    What America had to say

    What America had to say
  • At the time of release of Amiri's contradictory videos, the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that Amiri had been in America "of his own free will" and he was free to leave.

    US officials said that Amiri was offered $5 million to provide the CIA information about Iran's nuclear program, though he left for Iran without money.

  • Disclosure

    The Hillary connect

    The Hillary connect
  • Last year the State Department released Hillary Clinton's emails which appeared to support claims that he was a defector.

    Conversations between Clinton and senior officials, like, "We have a diplomatic, 'psychological' issue, not a legal one. Our friend has to be given a way out" and "our person won't be able to do anything. If he has to leave, so be it." mentioned him.

  • Iran's harsh justice

    Amiri's subsequent hanging by the State of Iran

    Amiri's subsequent hanging by the State of Iran
  • According to sources, Amiri was tried in a death-penalty case that was upheld by the Supreme Court. However, his conviction was never announced.

    His family mistakenly believed he had received a 10-year prison sentence.

    On Tuesday, Iran announced execution of a number of criminals and issued an obituary-notice in Amiri's name.

    His mother said that his neck bore ligature marks suggesting he was hanged.

  • 08 Aug 2016

    Iran executes nuclear scientist on the charge of treason

    Iran executes nuclear scientist on the charge of treason
  • Government sources confirmed on Sunday that Iranian nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri was hanged for treason for providing "vital information" to the US.

    Amiri disappeared in Saudi Arabia in 2009 and resurfaced a year later in the US, where he claimed to have been abducted and interrogated by the CIA.

    He returned to Iran a year later where he was given a long prison sentence.

  • Do you know?

    America's attempts to thwart Iran's nuclear program

  • The U.S. actively tried to recruit nuclear scientists to defect and impede Iran's nuclear efforts. The Stuxnet computer virus, which is believed to be a joint U.S.-Israeli creation disrupted thousands of centrifuges at a uranium enrichment facility in Iran at the same time.

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