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Dec. 14, 2020 The Trump administration named and sanctioned two top Iranian spies it says are responsible for the abduction and death in custody of Robert Levinson, the Jewish-American former FBI agent who went missing in 2007. The sanctions announced Monday were the first formal U.S. allegation that Iranian officials were involved in the abduction of Levinson on Iran’s Kish Island. Levinson, 58 at the time, was on what was later revealed to be a rogue CIA operation. In March, his family cited U.S. officials in announcing that he had died in Iranian custody, but at the time no U.S. offici...

U.S. blames Iran in abduction, death of ex-FBI agent Levinson By ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press Published: December 14, 2020, 8:54am Share: WASHINGTON — The Trump administration for the first time on Monday formally blamed Iran for the presumed death of retired FBI agent Robert Levinson, publicly identifying two Iranian intelligence officers believed responsible for his abduction and imposing sanctions against them. Levinson disappeared in Iran under mysterious circumstances more than a decade ago, and though U.S. diplomats and investigators have long said they thought he was ...

Trump Administration Sanctions 2 Iranian Officials Over Levinson Disappearance Monday, December 14, 2020 The Trump administration has sanctioned two Iranian officials over the disappearance and likely death of former FBI agent Robert Levinson, shown here in a March 6, 2012, FBI poster. Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP The Trump administration sanctioned two Iranian officials over the disappearance and probable death of Robert Levinson, a retired FBI agent who went missing in Iran in 2007 during an unauthorized mission for the CIA. The Treasury Department said Mohammad Baseri and Ahmad K...

CHICAGO: The Iranian regime on Monday faced a chorus of condemnation following the killing of an Iranian journalist, and additional US sanctions over the suspected murder of a retired FBI agent who was kidnapped more than 13 years ago. UN officials and Iranian activists denounced the execution of dissident journalist Ruhollah Zam, the publisher of the online AmadNews. The expatriate Iranian, who fled Iran more than a decade ago and was granted Asylum in France, was kidnapped in October 2019 while working in Iraq and sentenced to death by the Iranian regime in June this year. He was executed o...

An FBI poster showing images of former FBI agent Robert Levinson is seen at a news conference in 2012. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File) (CN) — The Trump administration announced sanctions against two Iranian intelligence officials Monday, blaming them for the 2007 disappearance of retired FBI agent Bob Levinson, who is now believed to be dead. “It is clear that not only were senior Iranian officials responsible for Mr. Levinson’s disappearance, but that they took deliberate actions to obscure their involvement through an extensive disinformation campaign,” White House press secret...