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Iran says 'abducted' scholar is not a nuke scientist | An Iranian Foreign Ministry official dismissed reports that Shahram Amiri, who was 'abducted' by the U.S. last year and was recently released, is a nuclear scientist.
"Shahram Amiri is not a nuclear scientist and we reject it," Xinhua quoted Iranian
Deputy Foreign Minister Hassan Qashqavi as telling reporters at Tehran's Imam
Khomeini Airport. "He is a researcher at one of the universities in Iran," Qashqavi
added. Amiri, 32, who had gone missing on a pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia in June
last year and arrived in Tehran early in the morning, told reporters that he was
kidnapped by the CIA and the abduction was part of the U.S. campaign to add political
pressures to Iran over its nuclear program. The Iranian scholar said he is just
a "simple researcher," without any expertise on nuclear technology, or knowledge
and access to Iran's nuclear sites. |
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