Robert Levinson Missing 2 Years in Iran

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Two years after a retired FBI agent disappeared in Iran, the State Department said it remains committed to finding him.

Levinson disappeared during a business trip to Iran's Kish Island in 2007. Iranian authorities have said repeatedly that they do not know what might have happened to him, but the claim is widely doubted in the United States.

"On several diplomatic occasions when Bob Levinson's name has been brought up to Iranian officials, the standard answer is, 'We don't know anything about that.' But the next thing out of the Iranian officials' mouths are to discuss the matter of the Iranians held by the Americans in Irbil, Iraq," Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Florida, told reporters last month. "You can draw your own conclusions."

Nelson and Rep. Robert Wexler, D-Florida, have said they plan to introduce legislation in their respective houses calling on Iran to cooperate with the United States and come up with information about Levinson, their constituent.

Levinson had been working as a private investigator in Dubai. He was last heard from on March 8, 2007, when he checked into a Kish Island hotel and then checked out to return to the United States the following day. After leaving the FBI, he worked as a security consultant specializing in cigarette smuggling, Levinson's wife, Christine, said.

I fear organized crime in collusion with the thugs who run the Iranian government. Criminal governments and the bully boys they rely on often use crime as a means to raise hard currency to enrich themselves and secure their power.On this one I give Wexler and Nelson my full support.
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