Iran confirms it hanged nuke scientist for handing over info

7 August 2016, 2:24 pm

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An Iranian judicial spokesman says the country executed a nuclear scientist convicted of handing over “top secret” information to the United States.

“Shahram Amiri was hanged for revealing the country’s top secrets to the enemy (US),” Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejeie is quoted as saying by the Mizan Online news site.

Iranian nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri in a series of videos posted from the US in 2009 and 2010. He was executed in Iran on August 3, 2016. (Screenshots)

Amiri disappeared in Saudi Arabia in June 2009 and resurfaced a year later in the United States. Iranian officials welcomed him on his return to Iran shortly after but there has been little information released since.

His family said he was executed on August 3 and that they had been allowed to visit him the day before, according to local press reports over the weekend.

— AFP