Iranian nuclear scientist on way home from US
Shahram Amiri said in an interview aired yesterday on Iranian state TV that he was abducted by American and Saudi agents while on a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia last year, drugged, whisked to the United States, where the CIA sought to force and bribe him into exposing Iranian secrets.
The US has denied claims of an abduction and has depicted Amiri as a willing defector who changed his mind, because he missed, or feared for, his family, still in Iran. On Tuesday, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Amiri had been in the United States “of his own free will and he is free to go”.
