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Iranian nuclear scientist 'tortured on suspicion of revealing state secrets'
Guardian ^ | 1/4/10 | Julian Borger and Saeed Kamali Dehghan

Posted on 01/05/2011 12:36:21 AM PST by LibWhacker

Shahram Amiri, who claimed he was abducted by CIA, has not been seen since return from US last year

An Iranian nuclear scientist who claimed to have been abducted by the CIA and who returned to a hero's welcome in Tehran in July has been imprisoned and tortured on suspicion of giving away state secrets, according to an opposition website.

Iranbriefing.net – run by a US-based group that normally reports on political prisoners and the activities of Iran's revolutionary guard – said the scientist, Shahram Amiri, had been interrogated intensively for three months in Tehran before spending two months in solitary confinement, where his treatment left him hospitalised for a week.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: amiri; iran; nuclear; scientist; shahramamiri; spies; spooks; torture; tortured

1 posted on 01/05/2011 12:36:30 AM PST by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker

What a paranoid people, can’t figure out whether to lionize or denounce him.


2 posted on 01/05/2011 12:45:40 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Dictatorships tend to be that way.


3 posted on 01/05/2011 12:58:52 AM PST by MetaThought
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To: LibWhacker

What’d they do to him? Couldn’t be worse than having to read Haggar the Horrible every day.


4 posted on 01/05/2011 1:27:29 AM PST by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

So the question is kinda left out there...was he a double, triple, or quadruple agent?

I think I would have stayed in DC and asked for Ben & Jerry’s ice cream daily from my CIA handler...over returning to Iran.


5 posted on 01/05/2011 2:10:13 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: Owl_Eagle

He had to wear underwear on his head. Gitmo style. Because, ya know, THAT is torture.

Libs denouncing Iranian torture in 3, 2, 1...


6 posted on 01/05/2011 2:15:52 AM PST by rickb308 (Nothing good ever came from someone yelling Allah Snackbar)
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To: FARS

Ping


7 posted on 01/05/2011 5:43:16 AM PST by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind.)
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To: LibWhacker

Let me guess, they used Bush era enahnced interrogation techniques?


8 posted on 01/05/2011 6:48:45 AM PST by Hotlanta Mike (TeaNami)
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