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

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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.

Wexler said Levinson never arrived at the airport for his flight home.