Iran executes nuclear scientist who returned from US

[Alan]

Iran has executed a nuclear scientist convicted of handing over "confidential and vital" information to the United States, a judicial spokesman said on Sunday."Shahram Amiri was hanged for revealing the country's top secrets to the enemy," Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejeie told reporters in Tehran.

Amiri disappeared in Saudi Arabia in June 2009 and resurfaced a year later in the United States.Conflicting accounts said he had either been abducted or had defected at a time when international tensions over Iran's nuclear programme were at their peak.

In a surprise move, Amiri then returned to Tehran in July 2010, saying he had been kidnapped at gunpoint by two Farsi-speaking CIA agents in the Saudi city of Medina.At first he was greeted as a hero, telling reporters as he stepped off the plane at Tehran airport that he had resisted pressure from his US captors to pretend he was a defector.

He denied he was a nuclear scientist and said US officials wanted him to tell the media he had "defected on his own and was carrying important documents and a laptop which contained classified secrets of Iran's military nuclear programme.""But with God's will, I resisted," Amiri said as he was welcomed home by his tearful wife and young son.

However, it was soon clear that Iranian authorities had not accepted this version of events and Amiri dropped out of public view. He was probably arrested although it was never officially reported.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/07/iran-executes-nuclear-scientist-who-returned-from-us/

 

[DA-LION-619]

I always thought the smart people were safe from the nut jobs in the world.

 

[Mephisto_Helix]

When you leave a savage backward country, don't go back ......

 

[Solarion]

In a surprise move, Amiri then returned to Tehran in July 2010

 

[Alan]

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s state TV is reporting that the Iranian foreign ministry has reacted angrily to UN criticism of the country’s execution of 20 Kurdish militants earlier this month.The Saturday report on Iran’s state TV website quotes foreign ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi as accusing the West of meddling in internal Iranian affairs.Ghasemi says, “while Iran is itself victim of terrorism, it will do its best to maintain the safety of its citizens.” His comments follow a Friday statement from the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, criticizing Iran for the executions.Ghasemi says that the judiciary had found the 20 men guilty of several charges, including attempting to establish a militant group, making explosives and planting bombs in Iranian cities.

Good to see the country continues to make progress under this new 'moderate' leadership

 

[Ninja'd]

But I thought the US and Iran were good on all things nuclear.

 

[saturnz]

Good to see the country continues to make progress under this new 'moderate' leadership

Snowden would probably also be executed if he were to return to the US.

He was apparently paid $5m by the USA to provide information.

I can't see a problem in terms of consistency, can you show another moderate country that would treat someone differently in the same scenario?

 

[TysonRoux]

The barbarians must have run out of gays.