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Both of these men claim to be Iranian nuke scientist Shahram Amiri, who vanished last year while on a pilgrimage to Mecca. One insists he was "abducted in a joint operation by kidnap and terror teams" from the CIA and the Saudi intelligence service. The other says he's working on his PhD in America, and doesn't know anything about nuclear weapons.
You'd be inclined to assume that one of these men is Amiri, and the other isn't. But the truth about his fate could lie somewhere in between these two videos, uploaded to YouTube right before a crucial U.N. Security Council vote on imposing new sanctions on Iran. ABC News says Amiri is, in fact, a nuclear scientist. But he wasn't kidnapped by anyone. Instead, he "defected to the CIA," providing an "intelligence coup" about Iran's weapons programs.
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