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August 7, 2016 1:36 pm - NewsBehavingBadly.com

The nuclear scientists was accused of sharing information about Iran’s nuclear program with the United States.

Shahram Amiri was executed for giving “vital information to the enemy”, a judiciary spokesman said.

Amiri disappeared in Saudi Arabia in 2009 and resurfaced a year later in the US, where he claimed to have been abducted and interrogated by the CIA.

He subsequently returned to Iran and was given a long prison sentence.

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News of his execution emerged on Saturday, when Amiri’s mother said the body had been handed over with rope marks around his neck.

On Sunday a spokesman for Iranian judiciary, Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei, told reporters: “Through his connection with the United States, Amiri gave vital information about the country to the enemy,”

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