By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — It’s tough figuring out the truth here. Bloomberg news reports that Iran’s Foreign Ministry claims it has “no trace” of ex-FBI agent Robert Levinson, who disappeared in 2007 from an Iranian island. The U.S. has said it believes he was abducted by Iranian agents. If the U.S. has “consistent…
UPDATE: Sec. of State Hillary Clinton issued this statement on Thursday:”As we approach the fourth anniversary of Bob Levinson’s disappearance, we have received recent indications that Bob is being held somewhere in southwest Asia. As the Government of Iran has previously offered its assistance in this matter, we respectfully request the Iranian government to undertake…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A WikiLeaks cable suggests that missing ex-FBI agent Robert Levinson, who went missing in 2007 while working as a private investigator in the Persian Gulf, was being held — at least at one point — in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard’s prison, according to a report in the The Telegraph in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Is former FBI agent Robert Levinson who vanished in Iran three years ago, dead? An American-born Muslim convert Hassan Abdulraham, who is wanted for the 1980 murder of a former Iranian diplomat in Maryland, says most likely Yes, Fox News reports. Abdulraham, who was editor of Iran’s state run Press TV…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The engaged daughter of an ex-FBI agent who vanished in 2007 while visiting an island off Iran, issued an open letter to the U.S. and Iran pleading for help. “As you know, my father, Robert “Bob” Levinson, has been missing in Iran since March 9th, 2007, when he disappeared from Kish…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The wife of retired FBI agent Robert Levinson marked the 1,000th day of her husband’s disappearance in Iran Thursday by talking about the anguish and pleading for help from the Iranian government to find out about his whereabouts. “Today, Thursday, December 3rd, marks the 1,000th day since my husband,…
Are Iranian officials hiding this man? That is the big question. By Lisa J. Huriash South Florida Sun Sentinel CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. – Every day, one of Robert Levinson’s seven children cries for him and turns to the others for emotional support. “The rest of us will console the one who’s upset,” said Dan Levinson,…
