Did the US capture an Iranian nuclear scientist? - Reasons to think they did
According to the Iranian government they did. Iran claims that Shahram Amiri disappeared while he was on a religious pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia in May, and that the US was involved.
From the Guardian:
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Crazy accusations from a regime known for its bending of the truth? Perhaps. But Seymour Hersh of the New Yorker wrote a controversial article last year disclosing the Bush Administrations secret plans to go to war with Iran, and also pointing out a rise in clandestine activities by the US in the Islamic Republic. Additionally, at a talk in Minnesota in March, Hersh went into a little more detail. While he made headlines with a claim that the Bush Administration had "an executive assassination ring", he also described secret US efforts to capture an Iranian nuclear scientist inside of Iran and use that person to make the case that Iran was secretly building a bomb. (Download the mp3 of the talk here.) So perhaps not such a crazy claim.
Vanguard also investigated whether or not the US was already at war with Iran in America's Secret War with Iran - in which Mariana van Zeller took to the rugged hills and mountains of northern Iraq to meet with the American-backed militia groups fighting Iran.
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From the Guardian:
Iranian media said he was an expert on radioactive isotopes for medical uses at Malek Ashtar University, in Tehran. "We've obtained documents about the US involvement in Shahram Amiri's disappearance," Iran's foreign minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, said, according to the semi-official Fars news agency. "We hold Saudi Arabia responsible for Shahram Amiri's situation and consider the US to be involved in his arrest."
(Also posted to current.com by user bansheewail.)
Crazy accusations from a regime known for its bending of the truth? Perhaps. But Seymour Hersh of the New Yorker wrote a controversial article last year disclosing the Bush Administrations secret plans to go to war with Iran, and also pointing out a rise in clandestine activities by the US in the Islamic Republic. Additionally, at a talk in Minnesota in March, Hersh went into a little more detail. While he made headlines with a claim that the Bush Administration had "an executive assassination ring", he also described secret US efforts to capture an Iranian nuclear scientist inside of Iran and use that person to make the case that Iran was secretly building a bomb. (Download the mp3 of the talk here.) So perhaps not such a crazy claim.
Vanguard also investigated whether or not the US was already at war with Iran in America's Secret War with Iran - in which Mariana van Zeller took to the rugged hills and mountains of northern Iraq to meet with the American-backed militia groups fighting Iran.
America's Secret War with Iran (Video)
Recently on Iran from the Current News Blog:
- Does Ahmadinejad have a Jewish past?
- Iran: It’s just the fact of the talking that’s important
- Student protests and the return of nuke inspectors – An Iran update
