The Associated Press reports that Shahram Amiri, an Iranian nuclear scientist who may or may not have defected to the US in 2009, was hung by the neck in Iran last week, apparently as punishment for engaging in espionage against the islamic Republic. Amiri disappeared while on a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia and reappeared in the United States. Ostensibly, his disappearance was to prevent Iran from building nuclear weapons, but he said that he was Shanghaied by western governments. The following year, he returned to Iran;<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, Iran announced it had executed a number of criminals, describing them mainly as militants from the country’s Kurdish minority. Then an obituary notice for Amiri circulated in his hometown of Kermanshah, a city 500 kilometers (310 miles) southwest of Tehran, according to the Iranian pro-reform daily newspaper Shargh.<\/p>\n
Manoto, a private satellite television channel based in London believed to be run by those who back Iran’s ousted shah, reported Saturday that Amiri had been executed. BBC Farsi also quoted Amiri’s mother saying her son’s neck bore ligature marks suggesting he had been hanged by the state.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Senator Tom Cotton lays Amiri’s conviction and execution at the feet of Hillary Clinton and her hacked email server, according to the Washington Examiner<\/a>;<\/p>\n
“I’m not going to comment on what he may or may not have done for the United States government, but in the emails that were on Hillary Clinton’s private server, there were conversations among her senior advisors about this gentleman,” [Senator Tom Cotton] said on “Face the Nation.” Cotton was speaking about Shahram Amiri, who gave information to the U.S. about Iran’s nuclear program.<\/p>\n
The senator said this lapse proves she is not capable of keeping the country safe.<\/p>\n
“That goes to show just how reckless and careless her decision was to put that kind of highly classified information on a private server. And I think her judgment is not suited to keep this country safe,” he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
While I don’t doubt that Hillary Clinton is an incompetent boob, someone needs to show me the emails about Amiri before I believe it. It’s just too coincidental.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"