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  • Mr. SHAHRAM AMIRI (Nuclear scientist): (Farsi language spoken) NORTHAM: So in this tape, Amiri backs what the Iranian government was saying, that he was abducted and that he was drugged and he ends up here in the U.S. where he claims he was tortured, and that's something the U.S. disputes.

    Nuclear Scientist Heads Back To Iran 2010

  • Mr. SHAHRAM AMIRI (Nuclear scientist): (Farsi language spoken) NORTHAM: So in this tape, Amiri backs what the Iranian government was saying, that he was abducted and that he was drugged and he ends up here in the U.S. where he claims he was tortured, and that's something the U.S. disputes.

    Nuclear Scientist Heads Back To Iran 2010

  • At least one Western report has suggested that intelligence officials intercepted a phone call Amiri made on the Internet to his wife to tell him she would be tortured if he did not return home.

    Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty 2010

  • After the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, Jones converted to Islam, remarried, and changed his name to Amiri Baraka.

    The Typewriter Is Holy Bill Morgan 2010

  • In my opinion, by calling Amiri a "double-agent", the Fars News Agency, which is highly linked to the Revolutionary Guards 'Intelligence, makes a sorry clean up effort.

    Omid Memarian: "Reading Amiri in Tehran"; Hero, Spy, or Kidnapped? 2010

  • On Tuesday, the semiofficial Fars News Agency called Amiri's apparent plans to return to Tehran the latest "defeat for the Americans in their intelligence-security actions against Iran."

    Iranian scientist surfaces at Pakistani Embassy in D.C.; Iran says U.S. kidnapped him 2010

  • First and foremost, I believe calling Amiri a kidnapped scientist or a double agent is a way of deeming the "defection temptation" an impossible option for Iranian scientists and officials.

    Omid Memarian: "Reading Amiri in Tehran": Hero, Spy, or Kidnapped? 2010

  • After the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, Jones converted to Islam, remarried, and changed his name to Amiri Baraka.

    The Typewriter Is Holy Bill Morgan 2010

  • In my opinion, by calling Amiri a "double-agent," the Fars News Agency, which is highly linked to the Revolutionary Guards 'Intelligence, makes a sorry cleanup effort.

    Omid Memarian: "Reading Amiri in Tehran": Hero, Spy, or Kidnapped? 2010

  • First and foremost, I believe calling Amiri a kidnapped scientist or a double agent is a way of deeming the "defection temptation" an impossible option for Iranian scientists and officials.

    Omid Memarian: "Reading Amiri in Tehran"; Hero, Spy, or Kidnapped? 2010

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