Amiri has taken refuge in Iran's interest section in Washington

Tehran, July 13, IRNA – Western media announced Tuesday that the abducted Iranian scientist, Shahram Amiri, has taken refuge in Iran’s interest section in Washington.

By attending the Islamic Republic’s interest section, Amiri has called for return to the country, the sources added.

Amiri, a university researcher, disappeared during a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia last June. He was abducted by US agents with the help of Saudi intelligence service.

In a video clip aired on Iran TV channels on April 6, 2010, Amiri said he was in the US and that he had been kidnapped by US agents en route to the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia in June 2009.

In related developments, Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast said that the film confirmed Tehran’s charges that Amiri had been kidnapped by the US and Saudi intelligence services.

Meanwhile, Tehran summoned the ambassador of Switzerland, whose country represents Washington’s interests in Iran in the absence of a US embassy.

Documents confirming Amiri’s abduction along with a protest letter were handed to the Swiss envoy./end