Posted on 07/14/2010 11:24:46 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
Mr Amiri, 32, said he was seized and spirited from the country after being offered a lift while walking towards a mosque.
He gave his account before flying home to Iran on Wednesday after taking refuge at the Iranian Interests Section of the Pakistani embassy in Washington earlier this week.
The US state department has insisted he was in the US of his own free will but Mr Amiri said he was kidnapped by secret agents in Medina, Islam's second holiest city, in May last year.
"A white van stopped in front of me... They told me in Farsi that they were part of another group of pilgrims and said 'We are going towards a mosque and we will be happy to take you as well'," he said.
"When I opened the door to get in and sit down, the person at the back put a gun to my side and said 'Please be quiet, don't make any noise'.
"As I opened the door, one of the passengers pulled out a gun and told me to be quiet. They gave me an injection and when I came around I was in a big plane. I was blindfolded. It was probably a military plane."
He said he was taken to "American territory" and put under intense psychological pressure to accept $10 million to make a video saying he had defected from Iran.
He was then allowed to settle in Tucson, Arizona, and live relatively freely on condition he did not talk about his abduction.
US security sources insist he was put into protective custody but later began to fear for the safety of his family back in Iran so had decided to return.
Mr Amiri boarded a plane for Qatar in the Gulf and from there was
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If he had been taken by the CIA he sure as heck would not have ended up at a Pakistani-run “Iranian Interests Center” in Washington, DC.
My question is, why in the heck are we allowing the Pakistanis to run an “Iranian Interests Center” staffed by Iranians on Wisconsin Ave. in DC? That really sounds stupid to me.
They have some awesome tin foil factories back in Iran.
If they don't take their wives and kids those people will pay dearly. If defectors do get their close family members out then the state just goes after the aunts and cousins, and then sends a video of each to the defector.
U.S.A. has no diplomatic relations with Iran. Pakistan is the go-between.
yitbos
Mr. Amiri’s only hope now is that he is so well-known the regime will not dare execute him. The media blitz will work in his favor, for a while, but when he is out of the spotlight his continued existence will depend on the mercy of the mullahs. They might keep him alive to perpetuate the lie that the CIA kidnapped him, or they might find it more expedient for plainclothes Basij to kill him in a “random crime.”
Apparently they opted to hang him.
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