WASHINGTON - The Trump administration on Monday offered a reward of up to $20 million for information about Robert Levinson, a former FBI agent who disappeared in Iran in 2007, and imposed new sanctions on leading Iranian officials as relations deteriorated further on the 40th anniversary of the U.S. Embassy takeover. The State Department claims Levinson was taken hostage in Iran with the involvement of the Iranian regime. Combined with a $5 million reward already in place from the FBI, this makes a total of $25 million available to the person or persons providing information about Levinson. “Bob Levinson has been held more than 10 times longer — for 4,624 days. The sanctions target individuals in Khamenei’s office, the armed forces and the judiciary.

Source: thestar November 04, 2019 17:39 UTC