'US kidnap of Iranian nuclear expert impossible without Saudi aid'

MASHHAD, June 16 (MNA) – A lawmaker said on Tuesday that documents have revealed that the United States would not have been able to kidnap the Iranian nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri without the help of the Saudi intelligence.

“If Saudi intelligence services had not cooperated, the Americans would have not succeeded to kidnap Amiri,” Hossein Sobhaninia told reporters in Mashhad.

Abduction of people, support for the Israeli state terrorism and terrorist groups are among the clear examples of human rights violations by the United States, said the cleric MP.

Sobhaninia, the deputy chairman of the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, said lodging a complaint against the United States and Saudi Arabia in international tribunals for release of Shahram Amiri is the most important duty of Iran’s diplomatic body.

Shahram Amiri, a university researcher working for Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, was kidnapped by American agents during a pilgrimage to the holy city of Medina last year.

In a footage showed on Iran’s TV on June 7, Shahram Amiri says he had been kidnapped and taken to the United States where he was tortured.