Iran scientist acquitted in US trade secrets case deported
(WorldNews Politics)

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An Iranian scientist imprisoned in the U.S. after being acquitted in a federal trade secrets case is on his way back to Iran after being deported, the country`s foreign minister said Tuesday. Sirous Asgari was in the air on a flight back to Iran, Mohammad Javad Zarif said in an Instagram post. `Congratulations to his wife and his esteemed family,” Zarif wrote. There was no immediate word on Iranian state-run media about the flight. Asgari, a professor at Iran`s Sharif University of Technology, had been indicted in April 2016, accused by federal prosecutors of trying to steal secret research from Case Western Reserve University. The Cleveland school had...