Retired FBI agent Robert Levinson's 2007 trip to Iran would prove to be a gut-wrenching nightmare for his family.
Evidence is growing that a retired FBI agent who disappeared in Iran four years ago is alive and being held in Asia, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday.
President Barack Obama is calling for the immediate release of three American hikers seized by Iranian forces along the Iraqi border who will have been in custody for exactly a year on Saturday.
The U.S. government is looking into the cases of three American hikers believed to have been seized inside Iran, along the Iraqi border.
The State Department called on Iran on Friday to pony up any information it has on a former FBI agent who vanished there last year.
A trip to find a former FBI agent who is missing in Iran is almost over, "and the miracle we were hoping for has not happened," his wife said Saturday.
Kian Tajbakhsh, an Iranian-American social scientist who has been held in Iran since May, has been released from Tehran's Evin Prison, according to his employer.
Haleh Esfandiari, the Iranian-American scholar who was held in Iran for eight months, has returned to her home in Potomac, Maryland, her husband, Shaul Bakhash, told CNN.
As Tehran presses for the release of five Iranians held by the U.S. military in Iraq, Iran's top judiciary spokesman announced Tuesday that three detained Iranian-Americans will be formally indicted or freed by the end of the week, according to Iranian media reports.
President Bush on Friday called on Tehran to release four detained Iranian-Americans "immediately and unconditionally."
Iran has formally charged Iranian-American Haleh Esfandiari with trying to topple the government, a spokesman for the Iranian judiciary told CNN on Tuesday.
The wife of a retired FBI agent who has been missing in Iran for months met with U.S. diplomats in Washington Wednesday.
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