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Iran's state media said a missing Iranian nuclear scientist who Tehran says was kidnapped by the CIA has taken refuge in the Pakistani Embassy in Washington. The reports said that Shahram Amiri took refuge at Iran's interest section at the Pakistan embassy in Washington a few hours ago, and has asked for a quick return to Tehran. Iran and the US broke diplomatic relations shortly after Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution, and Iran's interests in the United States are managed by the Pakistani embassy. Iranian officials have long maintained that Amiri was kidnapped by US intelligence agents from Saudi Arabia last year.
