I am surprised that a top diplomat of a country which proclaims to be an advocate of human rights made claims about my freedom while I was actually kidnapped: Shahram Amiri. 

Tehran, July 15, 2010 (Hamsayeh.Net) - After spending more than 14 months under CIA’s grip over his life, the abducted Iranian researcher spends time with his family in Iran and tells the story of his abduction to world media.

Shahram Amiri had once again confirmed his abduction by the US and Saudi backed agents when attending a Hajj pilgrimage last year. He said after being directed to a waiting van nearby, a man held a pistol over his head and asked him to be quiet. He then fell unconscious after receiving an injection by one of the agents. Next, when he could open his eyes, he was onboard a military plane heading toward the US. 

During the first two months of his abduction, Amiri underwent enormous physical and psychological tortures by CIA and Israeli security personnel within a prison-like confinement. The Iranian researcher was told to cooperate with the agents by appearing on a CNN televised program in which he was to say that he is a top nuclear scientist who seeks asylum to live in the United States.

‘Since the early days of my abduction, the Americans were willing to pay me 10 million dollars in exchange for my participation in a 10-minute interview with CNN.’ He explained. Shahram Amiri said he was offered a sum of $50 million for his prompt cooperation with the Americans and Israelis.  ‘They [US security agents] told me they would give me 50 million dollars and provide me and my family with proper living conditions in a European country if I reversed my decision to return to Iran,’ Amiri said in the press conference. 

In response to the US Secretary of States who claimed that the Iranian researcher was in the United States on his own free will, Amiri said, ‘I am surprised that a top diplomat of a country which proclaims to be an advocate of human rights made claims about my freedom while I was actually kidnapped.’  He also said that all throughout his captivity in the United States, the Iranian government looked after his family and provided support.

This isn’t the first time, that a top US official in the post of US Secretary of State publicly utters misleading and conflicting facts despite evidence to the contrary.