"Reading Amiri in Tehran": Hero, Spy, or Kidnapped?
Shahram Amiri's long list of contradictions and ambiguities in his TV interview connote that he is playing into the hands of the Iranian intelligence service, thus perpetuating their narrative.
Shahram Amiri's long list of contradictions and ambiguities in his TV interview connote that he is playing into the hands of the Iranian intelligence service, thus perpetuating their narrative.
Haggai Carmon | Posted 05.25.2011
Shahram Amiri, an Iranian nuclear scientist, went missing in May 2009 during a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia. Amiri's appearance on public television in Iran on July 15, 2010 offered some answers.
New York Times | WILLIAM YONG | Posted 05.25.2011
Mr. Amiri accused American agents of trying to coerce him to confess to being a spy so they could try to exchange him for three young hikers from the ...
Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett | Posted 05.25.2011
Why is no journalist from a major media outlet asking why the Obama administration pushed for new Iran sanctions, when there is clear disagreement and desperation in the U.S. Intelligence Community regarding Iran's nuclear program?
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — The CIA paid an Iranian nuclear scientist $5 million to provide intelligence on Iran's nuclear program, a newspaper reported Thursd...
AP | NASSER KARIMI and BRIAN MURPHY | Posted 05.25.2011
TEHRAN, Iran — An Iranian nuclear scientist claimed Thursday that he suffered extreme mental and physical torture at the hands of U.S. interroga...
Haggai Carmon | Posted 05.25.2011
The barrage of information regarding Shahram Amiri offered during the past 5 weeks makes it difficult to distinguish between genuine information, disinformation and spins.
AP | ROBERT BURNS and ADAM GOLDMAN | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — An Iranian scientist sought refuge in the Pakistani Embassy compound and asked to go home, an apparent defection gone wrong that co...
Posted 05.25.2011
The Iranian government claims it has evidence that one of its nuclear scientists was abducted and is being held in the U.S. against his will. In a v...
Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich | Posted 05.25.2011
Perhaps the warmongers camp would be more persuasive if they facilitated a meeting between Amiri and the Iranian authorities to reassure them that Amiri had not been kidnapped and held against his will.
Posted 05.25.2011
(AP) WASHINGTON — An Iranian nuclear scientist who had been reported missing since last summer has defected to the U.S. and is assisting the CIA...
Meir Javedanfar | Posted 05.25.2011
The assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Masoud Ali Mohammadi, who was killed when a motorcycle bomb was detonated outside his home, does not bode well for the Iranian government.
Omid Memarian | Posted 05.25.2011