Iran’s judiciary said it has executed an Iranian nuclear scientist who claimed he had been abducted by the US because he had revealed “classified information of the system to Iran’s hostile enemy”.
Shahram Amiri, a nuclear scientist who returned from the US in 2010 to a hero’s welcome in Tehran, claimed after his return that he was loyal to Iran and accused US and Saudi intelligence forces of kidnapping him in 2009. He had spent 14 months in the US.
US officials at the time rejected the claim, saying that the scientist had entered the US freely, having chosen to defect, but had returned to Iran because he feared for the safety of his wife and son in Tehran.