The death sentence imposed on Amir Mirzaei Hekmati today by the Iranian government charges that the US citizen and Marine was “waging war on God”. But his activities for a video game development company appear to be quite different than the nefarious CIA-funded actions his televised “confession” implied last December.
A US-born man who appeared to confess on Iranian state television last month that he allegedly spied for America — actions that supposedly included doing work for a video game development studio purported to be a CIA front — has been sentenced to death by the Iranian government.
When Iranian state TV aired the alleged confession of a homegrown spy on Sunday night, Amir Mirza Hekmati’s recitation of supposed wrongdoings included the standard claims of working as mole for the American Government along with a less common twist: that he’d supposedly worked for a video game company that was secretly trying to warp American perceptions of the Middle East.
One hundred and six missions later, virtual war ends for Kuma War with the playable, video game re-enactment of the killing of Osama Bin Laden.