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- Title: Iran's Vanishing Scientists (Iran-Report: Iran-Scientists)
- Author : The Weekly Middle East Reporter (Beirut, Lebanon)
- Release Date : January 31, 2009
- Genre: Reference,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 61 KB
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Shahram Amiri, an Iranian nuclear physicist, flew from Tehran to Mecca on May 31 to perform Umrah, the lesser pilgrimage to Islam's holiest shrine. Three days later, he left his hotel and never returned. The general belief is that he either defected to the Americans or was kidnapped by them, aided by Saudi Arabia's intelligence service. But for reasons that have not been explained, the Iranians gave no clue that he had disappeared until four months later, although the eventual disclosure may have been intended to embarrass the Americans during their long-awaited dialogue with Tehran over its nuclear program. In early October, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki took the unusual step of complaining to the United Nations about the disappearance of Amiri and other Iranians since December 2007. Mottaki spoke of Amiri's "arrest," but shed no further light on the episode. And just to underline the extreme sensitivity of the case, the Iranians did not identify him as a nuclear scientist, but simply as an "Iranian pilgrim." At least four other Iranians have disappeared under mysterious circumstances in recent months, in the Gulf, Dubai and Georgia, and some were linked to Iran's military or its nuclear program. The evidence available, which admittedly is generally meager, suggests that they were either defectors, lured away by the Central Intelligence Agency or possibly Israel's Mossad, or taken against their will for deep interrogation about Iran's nuclear secrets or its military capabilities. These mysterious events have been taking place as the United States and Israel spar with Iran over its nuclear program in a new Cold War largely waged in the shadows of the military and diplomatic maneuvering, carrying somber echoes of the West's five-decade faceoff with the former Soviet Union.
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