Shahram Amiri diculik oleh ejen AS dengan bantuan pasukan keselamatan Arab Saudi sebelum diterbangkan ke Amerika Syarikat ketika menunaikan umrah pada tahun 2009. Amiri mendakwa AS menawarkan duit sebanyak AS50 juta dolar, kehidupan yang selesa di negara Eropah sebagai balasan jika dia sanggup berpaling tadah. 

Kenyataan ini Amiri ini secara tidak langsung menafikan dakwaan Hillary CLinton yang mengatakan bahawa Amiri datang ke AS secara sukarela. Pembebasan Amiri juga turut dikaitkan dengan dakwaan pertukaran tahanan antara AS dengan Iran. Hal ini kemudiaannya telah dinafikan oleh pihak berkuasa Iran.

Amiri dikatakan berjaya melarikan diri sebelum berlindung di Kedutaan Pakistan sebelum terbang pulang ke Tehran.  

Jika benar, anda boleh menilai betapa tinggi iman dan maruah lelaki ini. Wang AS50 juta dolar bukanlah suatu jumlah yang sedikit. Bayangkan ada "katak" politik di negara ini sanggup menggadaikan maruah diri dengan nilai serendah RM100 ribu, sedangkan lelaki Iran ini sanggup mempertahankan maruah dan imannya walaupun ditawarkan berpuluh kali ganda daripada jumlah yang diterima oleh "katak-katak" politik di negara ini.

Saya petik berita berkaitan serta pautan untuk cerita lanjut tentang Shamram Amiri:

Amiri 'rejected bribe offer of USD 50mn'
[PTV] Iranian scholar Shahram Amiri, who was freed 14 months after being kidnapped by US and Saudi agents, says he turned down a 50 million dollar bribe offer by the US for cooperation.


Speaking in a press conference upon his arrival in Tehran on Thursday, Amiri said the US was pursuing a "psychological propaganda" campaign against the Islamic Republic through his abduction.

He went on to explain that US officials were making concerted efforts to bribe him to advance their political agenda against the Iranian government from the very first days of his kidnapping.

"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.

He also pointed to a US offer for an interview with CNN and said that, "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."

The Iranian academic went on to criticize US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for claiming that he had come to the US willingly and was free to leave.

"I am surprised that a top diplomat of a country which is an advocate of human rights made claims about my freedom while I was kidnapped," Amiri said.

Clinton said on Tuesday that Amiri "lived freely" in the US, adding that he was "free to go" back to his home country.

The Iranian academic also dismissed reports that he made his decision to return to Iran after his family came under pressure by the Islamic Republic.

"It is not true at all. After my abduction, Iranian officials supported my family," he explained.

In collaboration with Saudi forces, US security forces kidnapped Amiri while he was on a pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia in June 2009. He was later taken to the United States.

On July 13, the Iranian scientist took refuge in Iran's interest section at the Pakistani embassy in Washington and later on Wednesday left the United States for the Iranian capital, Tehran.

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