by Justin Raimondo, AntiWar
By now the narrative is well-established, at least as far as the Western media is concerned: Shahram Amiri, an Iranian scientist, defected to the US last year, but changed his mind and has now returned to Iran. No matter: we squeezed him dry, as one intelligence official boasted, and received “valuable” information about Iran’s nuclear weapons program (which doesn’t exist and hasn’t existed since 2003, according to the CIA’s own assessment, but never mind that bothersome detail).
“He’s free to go, he was free to come,” declared practiced liar Hillary Clinton, “these decisions are his alone to make.” Well, he did go, and is now in Tehran, where he’s being given a hero’s welcome – which kind of undercuts the story that he sold out his country for $5 million. That, however, isn’t the only indication that this murky affair is not what the government-media complex would have us believe. If Shahram came into the US freely, in order to pursue his “studies” at an American university, as Hillary and the CIA aver, then why is there no entry stamp on his visa, as various news account acknowledge?
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