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TEHRAN, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- The United States and Israel kidnapped an Iranian atomic scientist and a senior Defense Ministry official, Foreign Minister Manoucher Mottaki charged Tuesday.
Mottaki spoke during an appearance with the foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates, the Los Angeles Times reported, citing the Islamic Republic News Agency.
"The [United States] should give back our compatriots based on the call of their family and people," Mottaki said.
Shahram Amiri, who worked for the Iranian Atomic Energy Agency, disappeared in Saudi Arabia during the summer of 2006. Ali Risa Asghari also left Iran in 2006, vanishing while on a trip to Syria.
Both are believed to have defected. Amiri went to Saudi Arabia during a period after the main Haj or pilgrimage to Mecca when Iranian officials would have been closely monitored by Saudi security agencies, suggesting the Saudi government was involved, a Western intelligence official told the Times.
Iranian expatriates and intelligence officials have described Asghari as a defector.
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