Iran executes nuclear scientist for treason
By Trend
An Iranian nuclear scientist has been executed for treason, the country’s Judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei said.
Shahram Amiri was executed for giving vital information to the US, Ejei said, Tasnim reported August 7.
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.
After reappearing in the US in 2010, he said he had been kidnapped and put under “intense psychological pressure to reveal sensitive information”.
However US officials at the time said Amiri had defected of his own accord and provided “useful information”.
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