 He further said that after being carried to the U.S., he had been tortured and pressured to publicly state that he had willfully defected and that Iran had a secret nuclear weapon program.He called on international organizations and human rights groups to pressure U.S. for his release and expressed his wish to return to Iran.A second video was released hours later on YouTube, in which a person who appears to be Amiri without stating whether he was initially abducted, said that "I am free here and I assure everyone that I am safe", and denied taking action against Iran.