Iranian nuclear scientist executed
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.0210009
Guardian : Nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri was hanged in his home country of Iran last week. The Iranian judiciary had accused him of giving away state secrets. His activities in recent years had been “shrouded in mystery,” writes Saeed Kamali Dehghan for the Guardian, starting with Amiri’s disappearance in 2009 in Saudi Arabia while on a pilgrimage to Mecca. It was thought by some that he had defected to the US as part of an intelligence coup. Whether he returned willingly to Tehran in 2010 or whether he did so because his family had been threatened has not been determined. “Amiri was a victim of the nuclear standoff and its viciousness,” according to Ali Vaez, senior Iran analyst at the International Crisis Group.
