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Iran Denies Knowledge of Missing Ex-FBI Agent After Reports He Died

RFE/RL

   Tehran has denied it knows the whereabouts of Robert Levinson after the
   United States demanded "a complete accounting" of what happened to the
   retired FBI agent, who is believed to have died in Iranian custody.
   "Iran has always maintained that its officials have no knowledge of Mr.
   Levinson's whereabouts, and that he is not in Iranian custody. Those
   facts have not changed," Alireza Miryousefi, a spokesman for the
   Iranian mission at the United Nations, said in a Tweet on Thursday.
   The statement comes in response to a White House statement saying that
   the U.S. administration believed Bob Levinson may have passed away
   "some time ago."
   "Iran must provide a complete accounting of what occurred with Bob
   Levinson before the United States can fully accept what happened in
   this case," White House national-security adviser Robert O'Brien said
   in a statement about the American, who disappeared in Iran 13 years
   ago, when he was 58.
   Before that statement, Levinson's family posted on social media that it
   had received word about his likely fate from the U.S. government.

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