The Rome Assignment: A Gripping Realistic Counterintelligence Thriller by Eli Evron

Author:Eli Evron [Evron, Eli]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-02-12T00:00:00+00:00

18. Advanced Chess

There was about a week left until Raja was about to return to Rome. At a fairly late evening hour, the two Tabrizi brothers sat at a distant corner of the villa’s orchard garden in the Lavasan neighborhood in Tehran, where the older brother lived.

Despite his extremely senior position, Raja didn’t know how his brother could afford to live at such a luxurious suburb with villas and mansions. The family had always talked about some prize money Yazid had won for an important scientific breakthrough. The truth was different though. While Dr. Tabrizi did win a monetary prize and great recognition, officially it was a seemingly most important accomplishment in the nuclear field. But the real truth behind the scenes had to do with his current occupation, with his brother, Raja.

In August 2016, after a chilling cycle of rumors, Iran officially approved the execution by hanging of the nuclear scientist, Shahram Amiri, for spying for the U.S.

“The despicable traitor, Amiri, provided the enemy with vital information about the nuclear program,” said Gholam Hossein Mohseni-Ejei, the Iranian Legal System’s spokesperson on a highly covered interview.

The nuclear scientist, Amiri, an award-winning physicist with the highest security clearance was Dr. Tabrizi’s colleague and friend. They were both senior members of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization and worked together at the nuclear facility near Qom, which was only exposed in 2009. That year, Amiri disappeared in Saudi Arabia as he left Iran for the Haj pilgrimage. A few weeks later, the media published that he arrived in the U.S. and the Iranians claimed that he was spying for the Americans. Washington denied the claims, said it had no basis and that Amiri was free to return to Iran.

A year later, rumors started spreading in the global media that his family was being hassled in Iran, following his alleged espionage. The American and British media reported that Amiri defected to the west, provided information about the Iranian nuclear program and briefed IAEA inspectors before their first visit to the Qom nuclear facility.

The next surprising development in the affair was in 2010, when Amiri returned to Tehran and was welcomed as a hero, as Iran presented him as a freed prisoner. There was a press conference at the airport where he claimed to have been kidnapped by the Americans and tortured in the presence of an Israeli agent. In his interview he claimed he was offered to stay in the U.S. for fifty million dollars.

“I’ve endured extreme physical and psychological torture,” Amiri told the press, and claimed that CIA agents tried to convince him to act against his country. “I’m in possession of documents that prove that I didn’t stay in the U.S. of my own free will and I was constantly under armed intelligence agents’ surveillance.”

Surprises in this affair kept coming. A while after he returned, Amiri disappeared yet again. He was held in solitary confinement for years, without any contact with his family. He was executed by hanging in August 2016, as aforementioned, and his body was given to his mother.

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