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Wife of missing ex-FBI man gets no news in Iran
TEHRAN (Reuters) - The wife of a former FBI agent who went missing in Iran nine months ago said on Saturday she had been unable to find out what had happened to her husband during a four-day visit to the Islamic state to search for him.
"Our trip is almost over and the miracle we were hoping for has not happened," Christine Levinson told a news conference in Tehran together with her son Daniel.
"We still don't know were Bob is and the nightmare I and my family are experiencing will continue," she said adding that she had held talks with Iranian officials during her visit.
Robert Levinson, who retired from the FBI a decade ago, vanished in March while on a business trip to Iran's Gulf island of Kish. U.S. officials have said they believe Levinson is in Iran but they have no credible information on his whereabouts.
(Reporting by Fredrik Dahl; Editing by Matthew Tostevin)
