FBI releases new pictures of Iran intel officers allegedly concerned in Robert Levinson abduction

Federal authorities on Tuesday launched new pictures of three Iranian intelligence officers allegedly concerned within the abduction of retired FBI particular agent Robert Levinson. 

Every connected to a looking for info poster, the photographs of Reza Amiri Moghadam, Taghi Daneshvar and Gholamhossein Mohammadnia are a part of an intensive investigation into Levinson’s disappearance in 2007, the FBI’s Washington area workplace stated.

Moghadam is the present Iranian ambassador to Pakistan and beforehand led the operations unit of the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Safety in Tehran, an company whose members the FBI has accused of serving to orchestrate Levinson’s abduction. 

Daneshvar is described by the FBI as a high-ranking officer within the Iranian intelligence ministry concerned in counterespionage actions. Across the time Levinson disappeared, he allegedly oversaw the work of Mohammad Baseri, one other Iranian intelligence officer whom the US authorities has accused within the abduction. 

Mohammadnia is a senior deputy within the intelligence ministry who served because the Iranian ambassador to Albania in 2016, earlier than being expelled from Albania two years later for “damaging its national security,” in keeping with the FBI. The U.S. company stated Mohammadnia led an initiative accountable Levinson’s disappearance “on a terrorist group in Pakistan’s Baluchistan region to shift blame away from the Iranian government.”

The FBI launched images of three males it recognized as senior Iranian intelligence officers concerned within the abduction of retired FBI Particular Agent Robert A. “Bob” Levinson from Kish Island, Iran, on March 9, 2007.

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“These three intelligence officers were among those who allegedly facilitated Bob’s 2007 abduction and the subsequent cover-up by the Iranian government. Bob likely later perished in captivity far away from his family, friends, and colleagues,” stated Steven Jenson, the assistant director in command of the FBI’s Washington workplace, in an announcement. “The FBI will continue its relentless pursuit to hold anyone involved in his abduction to account for their reprehensible actions.”

The U.S. has maintained a view since Levinson vanished that the retired agent was kidnapped throughout an unauthorized CIA mission in Iran, and subsequently detained wrongfully by the Iranian authorities. Levinson was believed to be alive for years, till U.S. officers in 2020 stated intelligence indicated he may very well have been useless “for some time.”

Moghadam, Daneshvar and Mohammadnia have been sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Division in March for allegedly enjoying a job in Levinson’s “abduction, probable death, and Iran’s efforts to cover up or obfuscate their responsibility,” the federal company stated in an announcement on the time.

The newest looking for info posters adopted two others launched by the FBI in December, for Baseri and Ahmad Khazai, each Iranian senior intelligence officers considered accountable for Levinson’s abduction, detention and possible demise. Federal authorities have described the boys as high-ranking officers within the Iranian intelligence ministry. Each additionally have been sanctioned by the U.S. authorities.

Extra from CBS Information