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Iran says it executed scientist in spy mystery

FILE--In this file photo taken on Thursday, July 15, 2010, Shahram Amiri, an Iranian nuclear scientist attends a news briefing while holding his son Amir Hossein as he arrives at the Imam Khomeini airport just outside Tehran, Iran, after returning from the United States. Amiri, who was caught up in a real-life U.S. spy mystery and later returned to his homeland and disappeared, has reportedly been executed under similarly mysterious circumstances. Amiri was reportedly hanged this week and family members held a memorial service for him in the Iranian city of in Kermanshah, 500 kilometers (310 miles) southwest of Tehran. State media in Iran, which has been silent about Amiri's case for years, has not reported his death. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

Shahram Amiri, who had vanished in 2009 but returned to Iran in 2010, “provided the enemy with vital information,” an official claims.

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Source:: Yahoo News