- Iranian nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri was executed on Wednesday, August 3.
- In 2009, Amiri traveled to the United States after making a religious pilgrimage to Mecca. He later said US intelligence agents had abducted him.
- Iranian authorities may have pressured Amiri to return to Iran by threatening his family. He was first given a hero's welcome but was later arrested.

Iranian nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri was executed on Wednesday, August 3 at an unknown location. He had returned to Iran from the United States on July 15, 2010. Upon his arrival, Foreign Ministry Vice-President for Consular Affairs Hassan Ghashghavi went to welcome him. Numerous Islamic Republic officials praised him as a national hero. He appeared on TV programs in which he described escaping from the clutches of American intelligence agents.

“If you want to know why Shahram Amiri returned to Iran, you must pay attention to the fate of Saeed Emami’s family,” a reliable source in Tehran tells IranWire, referring to the case of the former Iranian deputy intelligence minister said to have committed suicide in prison. “The pressure put on Amiri's family was much higher than the pressure put on Saeed Emami’s family.”

In 1999, Emami was charged with masterminding Iran’s so-called chain murders, a series of killings and kidnappings targeting Iranian intellectuals. Emami was arrested amidst public outrage, but it was soon announced that he had committed suicide. Authorities later released a video in which his wife confessed, apparently under duress, that her husband had been cooperating with Israel.

It now appears that the Islamic Republic employed a similar strategy of pressuring family members to force Shahram Amiri to return to Iran, but there remain few satisfactory answers to the many questions surrounding his life in the past five years.

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http://en.iranwire.com/features/7377/

Every time now, that a US security issue is raised aren't we going to wonder if Hillary's unsecured server had played a role? I cannot fathom how a government can operate with someone as stupid as her at handling classified information.

Ooops, sorry, there goes another "short circuit".

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Every time now, that a US security issue is raised aren't we going to wonder if Hillary's unsecured server had played a role? I cannot fathom how a government can operate with someone as stupid as her at handling classified information.

Ooops, sorry, there goes another "short circuit".

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You are not having a conversation solely with yourself. Some threads provide interesting, even necessary, information, but they do not lend themselves well to comment. This thread is one such and I appreciate your contributions to our knowledge of this.

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