Posted on 03/30/2010 4:14:24 PM PDT by MissesBush
An award-winning Iranian nuclear scientist, who disappeared last year under mysterious circumstances, has defected to the CIA and been resettled in the United States, according to people briefed on the operation by intelligence officials.
Shahram Amiri, a nuclear physicist in his early 30s, went missing last June three days after arriving in Saudi Arabia on a pilgrimage, according to the Iranian government.
The officials were said to have termed the defection of the scientist, Shahram Amiri, "an intelligence coup" in the continuing CIA operation to spy on and undermine Iran's nuclear program.
A spokesperson for the CIA declined to comment. In its declassified annual report to Congress, the CIA said, "Iran is keeping open the option to develop nuclear weapons though we do not know whether Tehran eventually will decide to produce nuclear weapons."
Amiri, a nuclear physicist in his early 30s, went missing last June three days after arriving in Saudi Arabia on a pilgrimage, according to the Iranian government. He worked at Tehran's Malek Ashtar University, which is closely connected to Iran's Revolutionary Guard, according to the Associated Press.
The significance of the coup will depend on how much the scientist knew in the compartmentalized Iranian nuclear program," said former White House counter-terrorism official Richard Clarke, an ABC News consultant. "Just taking one scientist out of the program will not really disrupt it."
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 Shahram Amiri, a nuclear physicist in his early 30s, went missing last June three days after arriving in Saudi Arabia on a pilgrimage, according to the Iranian government. |
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Outside of bombing the nuke sites, what else can be done?
Didn’t Bush have a defector from Iraq that allegedly gave good inside information?
Are we repeating ourselves here?
I’d go for a different psy-ops techniques than the one that they used last time...s/ off
... Amiri, a nuclear physicist in his early 30s, went missing last June three days after arriving in Saudi Arabia on a pilgrimage, according to the Iranian government.
Prolly more truth there than you might imagine. LOL!! Bump.
Obama had an opportunity to de-legitimatize the Tehran regime and turn civil unrest into civil war in Iran following the “elections,” giving him and Europe an opening for intervention.
Obama will probably send him back....
I wouldn’t trust . . .
welllll anyway . . . I hope he has his affairs in order and says his prayers regularly . . .
Maybe the rest of us need to pray that OThuga doesn’t return him as an act of good will to OThuga’s Iranian Comrades.
nahh,..O is giving him healthcare, a lawyer, and a voting card in south chicago.
So basically the CIA, and by extension Obama, have had inside information about Iran’s nuclear program since last summer and haven’t done squat to deter it. Meanwhile, Jerusalem City Hall issues a permit for a yard sale and Obama goes off on Netanyahu.
How about “Africanization” of America?
He is coming over and 0 will set him up with our nuclear scientists to fill in the gaps in their program!
I hadn't thought of that. I could almost see Obama doing something like that in his craven and deluded drive to make America loved, or maybe just himself, by people who hate us.
Exactly. Three weeks ago Ahmadenijad called 911 a “fake” and asserted it was staged by the US government. Obama and his State Department said “This is an insult to America.” What were they referring to? Israel’s building of 1600 housing units...not Ahmadenijad’s deranged remarks about which they were silent.
Blablabla. Stealing nukes as Iran is doing should warrant bombing them now. We are getting embargoed by these bozos.
INDEED.
Sigh.
Thx for your kind reply.
Trust, but verify!
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