Levinson allegedly met with a former US citizen Dawud Salahuddin [not his original name], a convert to Islam who had in 1980 or 81 assassinated in Washington DC an Iranian diplomat loyal to the Shah of Iran, after which Salahuddin fled the US to the Middle East and eventually was given a job working for Iran’s PressTV.
Some reports have retired Florida resident and FBI employee Levinson visiting the Persian Gulf region as part of a rogue investigation of the Russian Mob and/or the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps’ trafficking in Heroin from Afghanistan. Early reports said he was investigating cigarette smuggling on behalf of the company British American Tobacco, which denied it. Other reports have Levinson making the trip as part of a media project.
While reprisenting the Levinson family it was strange how the plight of Levinson in Iran went nearly unmentioned in the press... which was very convenient for Obama and Hillary Clinton, who were trying to land the nuclear deal with Iran.