TEHRAN, June 15 (UPI) -- Intelligence services from Saudi Arabia cooperated with the U.S. counterparts to "kidnap" an Iranian nuclear scientist, Iranian lawmakers said Tuesday.
Iranian state television played a short clip last week of a man who said he was Shahram Amiri. The Fars News Agency reported the man said he had been kidnapped in Medina while on a pilgrimage. Fars reported that the man said he was abducted in a joint Saudi-U.S. operation, tortured by the CIA and is now in Tucson.
The other video, posted on YouTube, shows what appears to be the same man, the BBC reports. But this man looks clean and healthy, wearing a sport coat and collared shirt.
On the YouTube video, the subject says he is in the United States voluntarily and is studying in Tucson.
Hossein Sobhaninia, a cleric and member of the Iranian Parliament, said Riyadh must have played a role in Amiri events, the semiofficial Mehr News Agency reports Tuesday.
"If Saudi intelligence services had not cooperated, the Americans would have not succeeded to kidnap Amiri," he said.
U.S. officials have told reporters Amiri defected and has given information about Iran's nuclear program. Tehran maintains he was kidnapped.
