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Iran claiming that U.S. kidnapped nuclear scientist

Iran presses case of nuclear scientist it says held in US By Jay Deshmukh, Google hosted news,  (AFP) – 10 June 2010, TEHRAN — Iran said Tuesday it will use legal channels to secure the release of its nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri, who in a video clip screened on Iranian television channels said he was kidnapped by US agents.Foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said the film confirmed Tehran’s charges that Amiri had been “kidnapped by US and Saudi intelligence services.”But Washington denied the accusation………….
In the clip aired Monday, the man identified by Iranian state television as Amiri said he was now “in the city of Tucson, Arizona” in the United States and that he had been kidnapped by US agents en route to Mecca in Saudi Arabia in June 2009.

Amiri stated that his abduction was intended to mount political pressure on the Iranian government………..

ABC news in the United States reported in March that Amiri, a nuclear physicist in his early 30s who disappeared in June 2009 after arriving in Saudi Arabia on a pilgrimage, had defected and was working with the CIA.

Iranian officials have long maintained that Amiri was abducted from Saudi Arabia by US agents while on pilgrimage to the Muslim holy places.

The ABC report said that US agents described the defection as “an intelligence coup” in efforts to undermine Iran’s controversial nuclear programme.

AFP: Iran presses case of nuclear scientist it says held in US

June 14, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Iran, secrets,lies and civil liberties | AUSTRALIA, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin