Iranian nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri and his son at Imam Khomeini Airport in Tehran on July 15, 2010.
(Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images)
The Iranian scientist who said he was kidnapped by the CIA appeared in a videotaped interview on Iranian state television. In the interview he says that the U.S. wanted him to say he was a spy in order to swap him for three American hikers that are being held in Iran. The Americans maintain that he was a volunteer defector. The BBC's Jon Leyne says that the chance of a prisoner swap would have been nearly impossible due to the strained relations between Iran and U.S.
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