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Iran Executes Nuclear Scientist Who Was Convicted of Spying
(AP-Washington Post) Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell - Shahram Amiri defected to the U.S. in 2009 while on a religious pilgrimage to Muslim holy sites in Saudi Arabia. A year later, he walked into the Iranian-interests section at the Pakistani Embassy in Washington and demanded to be sent home; he described being kidnapped and held against his will by Saudi and American spies. When he returned in 2010, he was welcomed with flowers by government leaders and even went on the Iranian talk-show circuit. Then he mysteriously disappeared. Iranian judiciary spokesman Gholamhosein Mohseni Ejehi said Sunday that Amiri, who "had access to the country's secret and classified information" and "had been linked to our hostile and No. 1 enemy, America, the Great Satan," had been hanged. He said Amiri had been tried in a death-penalty case that was upheld by an appeals court.