Posted on 05/09/2007 7:18:01 PM PDT by nuconvert
Wife of missing ex-FBI agent pleads with Iran
May 9, 2007
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The wife of a retired FBI agent who has been missing in Iran for months met with U.S. diplomats in Washington Wednesday.
Christine Levinson is trying find information about Robert Levinson's whereabouts. She told CNN she is convinced her husband is still in Iran, and she has appealed directly to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad through a letter.
"Because he is the president of Iran, he has the ability to get information and help me find Bob and bring him home," she told CNN's Jill Dougherty in an exclusive interview.
Washington, which has no diplomatic ties with Tehran, has made approximately five inquiries about Levinson's whereabouts since he disappeared on March 8, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said Wednesday.
In addition to Levinson, there are three Iranian-Americans who "have had their passports confiscated by Iranian officials and not allowed to leave Iran," McCormack said. "This is of concern to us."
Those Iranian-Americans include two women: Haleh Esfandiari, who runs the Middle East programs for the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, and Parnaz Azima, who works for U.S.-funded Radio Farda. The third person has not been identified.
"These people don't pose any threat to the Iranian regime," McCormack said.
Levinson disappeared during a trip to Kish Island in southern Iran.
His wife said she had no idea what he was doing there, but noted that it was related to his job running a consulting firm.
She told CNN that she believes Levinson met with Dawud Salahuddin, an American fugitive who lives in Iran, shortly before Levinson's disappearance and that a man purporting to be Salahuddin called her "right when he disappeared."
"He said it was going to be fine and he'd [Levinson] be home in a couple days,"
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He is not “missing”...he’s probably having tea with Joe Wilson.
Prayers for the Levinsons and their seven children.
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