Shahram Amiri

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Shahram Amiri before his execution

Shahram Amiri ( listen ? / I ; PersianAudio file / audio sample شهرام امیری Shahrām Amiri , DMG Šahrām Amīrī , also Sharam Amiri ; * November 8, 1977 in Kermanshah ; † August 3, 2016 in Tehran ) was an Iranian nuclear physicist . He worked at Malek Ashtar University (MUT)until 2009and then allegedly lived in the USA until July 2010. The Amiri case is part of the discussion about the Iranian nuclear program .

Life

No details are known about Amiri's work at MUT. The scientist disappeared in an unexplained manner in early June 2009 on a pilgrimage to Mecca . He arrived in Saudi Arabia on May 31st, and last called his wife on June 3rd, 2009 from Medina . A few months later, the existence of a second uranium enrichment facility in Iran became known. "Experts therefore wonder whether the atomic researcher has provided the West with information on this or other aspects of the nuclear program."

While US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in July 2010 that Amiri came to the US voluntarily, Iran’s Foreign Minister Manutschehr Mottaki said they had "evidence that the US played a role in the disappearance of an Iranian citizen in Saudi Arabia". In October 2009, Mottaki presented UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon with a list of the names of missing Iranians, including Iran's former Deputy Defense Minister Ali-Reza Asgari , who did not return to Iran in December 2007 from a trip to Turkey and is listed by the USA as a defector . On March 31, 2010, the US television station ABC reported that Amiri had also been poached by the CIA and was in the USA. It was a "long-planned CIA operation".

On July 13, 2010, it was reported that the scientist had shown up at the Pakistani embassy in Washington. Shortly afterwards he traveled back to Iran. After his arrival in Tehran on July 15, 2010, the scientist stated that he had been abducted by secret services to the United States during the pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia and tortured there. The US government stressed that Amiri had stayed in the US voluntarily. The Washington Post reported at the same time that Amiri had received $ 5 million from the CIA for information about Iran's nuclear program. Amiri, on the other hand, testified that the US had offered him $ 50 million if he did not return to Iran and another $ 10 million for a CNN interview in which he was asked to state that he was in the US of his own free will.

Amiri was received as a hero in Iran, but was arrested a short time later. A media report dated July 19, 2010 said Foreign Minister Mottaki had said it had not yet been decided whether Amiri was "a hero or not". “The fact that the chief diplomat, otherwise known for his reluctance, expresses so clearly concerns about Amiri's sincerity is considered a bad omen. The scientist is already doomed for opponents of the regime in exile. ”Nothing was known about Amiri's whereabouts. In November 2015, his family told western media that they had not had any contact with him for a year and were afraid for his life.

On August 6, 2016, the family announced that they had received Shahram Amiri's body from the authorities. The corpse had strangulation marks . Amiri was apparently hanged .

The Amiri case has been linked in the media with the two Iranian scientists Ardeshir Hosseinpours and Massud Ali-Mohammadi . The former died of poisoning on January 15, 2007, and the latter was murdered on January 12, 2010 in Tehran.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Copy of his passport ( memento from December 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ a b Sharam Amiri: Tehran confirms execution of controversial nuclear physicist. Spiegel Online , August 7, 2016, accessed August 7, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Sarah Mersch: Where is Shahram Amiri? Deutsche Welle , April 5, 2010, accessed on August 7, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Mysterious case: Iranian scientist returns to his homeland . dpa article on Stern.de , July 14, 2010, accessed on August 8, 2016.
  5. ↑ Rainer Rupp : US secret service war against Iran: arrests and kidnappings as in the espionage thriller . Junge Welt , December 17, 2009, accessed on August 8, 2016 (pdf; 81 kB).
    Missing Iranian Researcher: The Mysterious Disappearance of Shahram Amiri. Spiegel Online , October 9, 2009, accessed August 7, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Matthew Cole: Iran Nuclear Scientist Defects to US In CIA 'Intelligence Coup'. ABC News , March 30, 2010, accessed August 7, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Missing scientist: Iranian nuclear researcher turned up in the USA. Spiegel Online , July 13, 2010, accessed August 7, 2016 .
  8. ↑ CIA paid millions to Iranian nuclear physicists. dpa article on süddeutsche.de , July 15, 2010, archived from the original on July 18, 2010 ; accessed on August 7, 2016 . CIA is said to have paid nuclear physicist Amiri millions . Welt Online , July 15, 2010, accessed August 7, 2016.
  9. ↑ Iranian nuclear researcher: US fee in the millions voluntarily waived. RIA Novosti , July 15, 2010, accessed August 7, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Iran: Bad Omen . Der Spiegel 29/2010, July 19, 2010, p. 80, accessed on August 7, 2016.
  11. ↑ Anahita Shams: Iran family fears for Shahram Amiri, detained scientist. BBC News , November 6, 2015, accessed August 6, 2016 .
  12. ↑ شهرام امیری ، پژوهشگر اتمی ، اعدام شد. Manoto , August 7, 2016, retrieved on August 7, 2016 (Persian, original date : 16. Mordad 1394): "Shahram Amiri, a nuclear scientist, was executed." Anahita Shams: Iranian nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri 'executed'. BBC Persian , August 6, 2016, accessed August 7, 2016 . Nasser Karimi, Jon Gambrell: Iran says it executed nuclear scientist in US spy mystery. Associated Press , August 7, 2016, accessed August 7, 2016 .

personal data
SURNAME Amiri, Shahram
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Amiri, Sharam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian nuclear physicist
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Kermanshah
DATE OF DEATH 3rd August 2016
Place of death Tehran