Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hassan Qashqavi says that Shahram Amiri, the Iranian who disappeared in Saudi Arabia, is not a nuclear scientist, as reported by the London daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat.
He said that the newspaper had distorted the words of Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki on the issue, and blamed the man's disappearance on Saudi Arabia.
(See also Iranian Website: Iranian Nuclear Scientist Defects to Saudi Arabia.)
Source: IRNA, Iran, October 5, 2009
