Iran calls ex-FBI agent’s case a ‘missing person’ file

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman says an open Revolutionary Court case involving an ex-FBI nt who disappeared re in 2007 on an unauthorized CIA mission does t involve criminal charges against him. comments by Abbas Mousavi on Sunday at a news conference, carried live by Iran’s state-run Press TV, came after news of case involving Robert Levinson became public Saturday.

Mousavi said case “was just a file about a missing person.” He said case was opened on “ basis of goodwill and humanitarian issues.” Levinson disappeared from Iran’s Kish Island on March 9, 2007. Iran has given conflicting accounts of what happened to him over years since. U.S. is w offering up to $25 million for information about Levinson.