In June 2009, Shahram Amiri, one of Iran’s nuclear scientists
disappeared in Saudi Arabia while on a Muslim pilgrimage. Soon
thereafter Iran pointed the finger at the U.S. and accused it of
kidnapping one of Iran’s finest. Washington denied any knowledge of
Amiri.
Until now.
Today, in an ABC exclusive, contrary to previous statements, the U.S.
admitted that Amiri had “defected to the CIA” in what it termed as an
“intelligence coup”. Undoubtedly, the CIA has been involved in
innumerable atrocious coups, tortures, assassinations, and kidnaps, but
defects? The very outfit that has been assigned to assassinate American
citizens thought to be cooperating with the enemy has been charged with
soliciting ‘enemy’ defectors!
Given that Washington denied all knowledge of Amiri for months after
his disappearance, the State Department ought to facilitate a meeting
between him and the Iranian authorities to reassure all concerned
parties that Amiri has indeed defected of his own free will. This was a
practice that the Americans obliged even at the height of the Cold War.
When a Soviet nuclear physicist by the name of Artem Vladimirovich
Kulikov defected in 1985, he met with officials of the Soviet embassy at
the State Department to reassure the Russians that he was not being
held against his will. Failure to do this will give credibility... >>>
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