1. On 27 September 2009, Tehran Bureau noted conflicting information regarding the date of his disappearance: the Tehran Times claimed that Amiri disappeared on 31 May, but Press TV claimed he disappeared in June.
23 Facts About Shahram Amiri
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In July 2010, Shahram Amiri reappeared in Washington, DC at the Iran interests section of the Embassy of Pakistan, seeking help to return to Tehran.
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Shahram Amiri was an award-winning atomic physicist who worked at the heavily guarded facility near Qom.
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Shahram Amiri was a nuclear physics researcher at Malek-Ashtar University of Technology, a research institute closely associated with the Iranian military.
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Shahram Amiri then traveled to Saudi Arabia, where the CIA smuggled him out of the country.
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Shahram Amiri's safety depends on him sticking to that fairy tale about pressure and torture.
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Shahram Amiri's challenge is to try to convince the Iranian security forces that he never cooperated with the United States.
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On 30 March 2010, ABC News reported that Shahram Amiri was initially approached via an intermediary, agreeing to defect in a "long-planned CIA operation" and was then living in the United States.
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On 13 July 2010, after a year in America, Shahram Amiri changed his mind and decided to go back to Iran having received several letters from his 7-year-old son Amir Hussein pleading him to return home and visit the family.
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On 7 June 2010, IRIB aired a poor quality webcam video apparently from Tucson and recorded on 5 April 2010, in which a man alleged to be Shahram Amiri said that he had been kidnapped by force in Saudi Arabia through a combined effort of the American and Saudi intelligence services.
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Shahram Amiri further said that after being carried to the US, he had been tortured and pressured to publicly state that he had willfully defected and that Iran had a secret nuclear weapon program.
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Shahram Amiri called on international organizations and human rights groups to pressure US for his release and expressed his wish to return to Iran.
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Shahram Amiri says, in Persian, that he is happily living in the US and going to school.
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Shahram Amiri denied having worked in the Iranian nuclear program and made a plea to his wife and son.
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The interview made clear that despite more than one year of disappearance, Shahram Amiri had not contacted his wife and their seven-year-old son.
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Shahram Amiri further called on human rights organizations to pressure the US for Amiri's release.
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On 13 July 2010, Shahram Amiri was unexpectedly dropped off at the Iranian interests section of the Pakistani Embassy seeking assistance returning to Iran.
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Shahram Amiri returned to Iran via Turkey, as the United States has no direct flights to Iran.
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Shahram Amiri had no choice but to play the script the regime has given him and return to Iran.
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On 6 July 2014, Shahram Amiri appeared in court, and could tell his relatives that he was then on hunger strike.
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Those emails show that Shahram Amiri was a friend of the United States and a defector.
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On 2 August 2016, there was a last visit, where Shahram Amiri himself informed his parents of his forthcoming death; the next day, his body was returned to the family.
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Shahram Amiri was executed on 3 August 2016, for allegedly providing US Intelligence with vital information about Iran's nuclear program.