So what's going on here? Were the Iranians telling the truth after all and was he kidnapped by the US? Either way this is very embarrassing since US security have let him escape, although he won't be able to travel back to Iran.

A missing Iranian nuclear scientist, who Tehran says was kidnapped a year ago by the CIA, has taken refuge in the Iran section of Pakistan's US embassy.

A spokesman from Pakistan's Foreign Office, Abdul Basit, told the BBC that Shahram Amiri was seeking immediate repatriation to Iran.

In June videos purportedly of Mr Amiri but containing contradictory information on his whereabouts emerged.

The US rejected Tehran's claims that it was behind Mr Amiri's disappearance.
Iranian media say Mr Amiri worked as a researcher at a university in Tehran, but some reports say he worked for the country's atomic energy organisation and had in-depth knowledge of its controversial nuclear programme.

ABC News reported in March that he had defected and was helping the CIA, revealing valuable information about the Iranian nuclear programme.
But earlier this month, Tehran said it had proof he was being held in the US.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/mid...t/10609461.stm

My guess is that some one has had a change of heart and is looking for a way to undo a defection.

Yeah... sounds a lot like it.
Probably ended up in Baltimore and wondered, "I gave up Iran for THIS??"

Originally Posted by A Can of Man

Yeah... sounds a lot like it.
Probably ended up in Baltimore and wondered, "I gave up Iran for THIS??"

Or maybe he just couldn't handle too much "freedom" lol....

If that was a defection, why then the United States government told that they don't know anything about this man and they don't know where he is? He was in the US since summer 2009, and we found out that he was in America only in March 2010. Something wrong with the US Immigration Service? Aye, there are too many Iranian nuclear physicists in the United States, you can't watch them all.

I think it is a case of cold feet. He left a wife and 7 yar old son. Made 2 videos. In the first he accused the US of kidnapping him and torturing him, in the second he was saying everything is great. I suspect when he went to Mecca he was offered asylum in the US, took their offer and is now having second thoughts.
If ICE didn't know he was here it was because he was in witness protection.

He is back in Iran now, seems unlikely it was a defection unless his family is being threatened, but surely he would have realised this to start with. Perhaps we will find out when all the media storm has died down and he quietly disappears.

I guarantee that his familty was threatned as soon as he went missing. The iranian gov't is not known for being reasonable or fair.

Originally Posted by HokieMSG

I guarantee that his familty was threatned as soon as he went missing. The iranian gov't is not known for being reasonable or fair.

I agree....coming from an immigrant family I know that no one gives up living here in the USA for no apparent reason.

Originally Posted by sky2979

I agree....coming from an immigrant family I know that no one gives up living here in the USA for no apparent reason.

Really, I did.
I have no problem living in the USA but we both felt the quality of life in New Zealand suited us better so it may be more accurate to say that few from 3rd world s**tholes give up the opportunity to live in the USA the rest of us don't rate it any better than where we came from.