MNA Despite the repeated announcements by Iran of not having any information on ex-FBI agent Robert Levinsons fate, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo addressed his disappearance in a White House press release on March 9, calling for Iran to work with the US for Levinsons return. Iran must honor the commitment it has made to work with the United ...

IRNA Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said the US national Robert Levinson has no judicial records in Iran and Tehran is following his case just out of humanitarian motivations. Mousavi made the remarks in his weekly press briefing here on Sunday. He further rejected certain rumors that Lewinson has a case in Iran's Revolutionary ...

MNA The US Congress has once again dragged back to surface old claims about the disappearance of ex-FBI agent Robert Levinson in a bid to put more pressure on Iran. According to Breitbart News Network, a bipartisan group of Florida lawmakers, comprising Reps. Michael Waltz, Ted Deutch, and Lois Frankel, as well as Sen. Marco Rubio, has introduced ...

Press TV - Iran has dismissed as unacceptable and meddlesome a recent statementby the White House against the Islamic Republic, saying the US statesmen must use the language of respect when addressingthe Iranian people. As it has repeatedly been proven, the Islamic Republic of Iran will never yield to anykind of bullying under any condition ...

Press TV - The White House has warned Iran of serious consequences if it does not release all American citizens imprisoned in the country. "Iran is responsible for the care and well-being of every United States citizen in its custody, the White House said in a statement on Friday. President Trump urges Iran to return Robert Levinson home, who ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House of Representatives has approved a resolution calling on Tehran to fulfill its promise of assistance in the case of Robert Levinson, a former FBI agent whoallegedly went missing in Iran nine years ago. Lawmakers approved the bipartisan resolution Monday. The resolution calls Levinson, now 67, the longest held American ...

The White House says retired FBI agent Robert Levinson, who the US claims disappeared in Iran some eight years ago, is no longer in the country. White House press secretary Josh Earnest made the announcement on Tuesday, marking the first time the administration is refusing to point a finger at Tehran over the matter. Earnest said he rested assured ...

Trump said that if elected in 2016, he would successfully free four Americans serving jail sentences in Iran. WASHINGTON (Sputnik) Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump told a crowd at the US Capitol that if elected in 2016, he would successfully free four Americans serving jail sentences in Iran in less than three months before he was ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's deputy foreign minister says Iranian diplomats discussed the case of Americans still held captive by Tehran. The issue was raised on the sidelines of negotiations in Vienna earlier this month that led to the landmark deal on curbing Iran's nuclear program. Abbas Araghchi told reporters in the Iranian capital on Wednesday ...

[caption id="attachment_67318" align="alignright" width="170"] Christine Levinson (R), wife of former FBI agent Robert Levinson, watches as her son Daniel Levinson displays a web print of his father's picture to journalists while attending a news conference at Switzerland's embassy in Tehran December 22, 2007. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl[/caption] (Reuters) ...

[caption id="attachment_141561" align="alignright" width="203"] The armed forces identification card of Iranian-American Amir Mirza Hekmati is seen in this undated still image taken from video in an undisclosed location made available to Reuters TV on January 9, 2012.[/caption] (Reuters) - The United States called on Tuesday for the release of U.S....

Washington (CNN)-- Former U.S. Marine Amir Hekmati has been convicted in Iran by a secret court of "practical collaboration with the U.S. government" and sentenced to 10 years in prison, his sister told CNN on Friday. The news follows a public campaign by Hekmati's family to win his release from Iran, where he has been held for nearly three years ...

Advocates for a former Marine imprisoned in Tehran more than two years ago are seeking to use a diplomatic window created by the temporary nuclear agreement with Iran to gain his release. In a letter to President Obamareleased on Wednesday, four top former American defense and security officials urged immediate action to expedite the release of the ...

(CNN)-- The family of long-missing former FBI agent Robert Levinson has renewed its request for a meeting with the bureau's new director following reports Levinson had been working for the CIA when he vanished, the family's lawyer said Monday. Levinson disappeared on a trip to Iran in 2007, and U.S. officials say they have no idea where he is now....

Tehran, Dec 17, IRNA Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham said Tehran has repeatedly announced that Robert Levinson is not in Iran. During her weekly press briefing here on Tuesday, she said during the years since the disappearance of Levinson, Iran has stressed repeatedly that he is not in Iran. She said the Iranian foreign minister too ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration should make any diplomatic agreement with Iran contingent on Tehran's help finding missing CIA contractor Robert Levinson, a lawyer for his family said Monday. "He's your guy and you put him there," attorney David McGee said. "Raise the ante." Levinson disappeared in Iran in 2007. For years, the government ...

Iran calls the recent US sanctions against a few Iranian entities a very wrong move, but says Tehran still honors the interim nuclear deal it reached with the Sextet over Iran's nuclear energy program. That was a very wrong move, said Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in an interview with CBS News published on Sunday. We are committed ...

The intrigue over the rogue CIA agent last seen six years ago in Iran intensified Sunday with an accusation about a cover-up, Secretary of State John Kerry rejecting allegations the United States has abandoned the search and Iran distancing itself from the mystery. Kerry expressed hope the new Iranian government would provide information on the whereabouts ...

(CNN)-- The United States hasn't abandoned Robert Levinson, the retired FBI agent described by his wife as the "longest-held American hostage," Secretary of State John Kerry said Sunday. "There hasn't been progress in the sense that we don't have him back. But to suggest that we've abandoned him or anybody ... is simply incorrect and not helpful," ...

(CNN) -North Korean leader Kim Jong Uns execution of his uncle was an ominous sign of instability and danger, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said in an interview broadcast Sunday. Kerry also weighed in on reports about former FBI agent Robert Levinson, who went missing in Iran seven years ago. The United States has not stopped efforts to get him ...