The Washington Post reported on July 15, 2010, that Amiri “was paid more than $5 million by the agency to provide intelligence on Iran’s nuclear program,” citing unnamed U.S. “These are decisions that are his alone to make,” Clinton told reporters at the time. officials said Amiri voluntarily defected to the U.S., and Clinton was quoted as saying that Amiri was free to go home. In an AP story on July 13, 2010, unnamed U.S. “We are not in the habit of going around the world and kidnapping people,” Crowley said at a June 8, 2010, press briefing.Ī month later, Amiri turned up at the Pakistani embassy in Washington, D.C., requesting to return to Iran. An Associated Press article on June 7, 2010, quoted Amiri as saying he was “heavily tortured and pressured by U.S. In June 2010, Iranian state television showed a video of Amiri in which he claimed that he was captured by the U.S.
State Department spokesman Mark Toner declined to comment on the ABC News report. intelligence assessments about the Iranian nuclear program,” ABC News reported. “Amiri has been extensively debriefed since his defection by the CIA, according to the people briefed on the situation. in what was described as an “intelligence coup.” On March 31, 2010, ABC News reported that Amiri indeed had defected to the U.S. Kelly told reporters that he wasn’t aware of any State Department involvement in Amiri’s disappearance. “The disappearance of an Iranian nuclear scientist on a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia in June is raising questions about whether he defected and gave the West information on Iran’s nuclear program,” the AP wrote.Īt the time, State Department spokesman Ian C. of being involved in Amiri’s disappearance. 8, 2009, article, the Associated Press wrote that the Iranians accused the U.S. The bizarre case of Shahram Amiri became public in the fall of 2009, when Amiri disappeared during a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia. because of Hillary Clinton's hacked emails. Many people are saying that the Iranians killed the scientist who helped the U.S. 8 - a day after the Iranian government confirmed that the scientist-turned-spy was killed: Trump tweeted about Amiri’s execution Aug. An FBI investigation “did not find direct evidence that Secretary Clinton’s personal e-mail domain … was successfully hacked,” FBI Director James Comey said on July 5, although he added that “it is possible that hostile actors gained access” to Clinton’s server. The emails sent by Clinton’s aides in July 2010 were among the more than 30,000 work-related emails housed on Clinton’s private server and released by the State Department in batches since June 2015.
with information on Iran’s nuclear program appeared in March 2010 - nearly four months before Clinton’s aides at the State Department referenced Amiri (without naming him) in emails.įurthermore, there is no evidence that Clinton’s emails were “hacked,” as Trump said. The first news story on Amiri providing the U.S. To the contrary, it had been widely reported for years that Amiri was a CIA informant. and reportedly became a CIA spy - was executed in Iran recently “because of Hillary Clinton’s hacked emails.” There is no evidence of that.
Donald Trump speculates on Twitter that Shahram Amiri - an Iranian nuclear scientist who defected to the U.S.
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