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Iran to Allow Family to Search for Missing F.B.I. Agent  

The government granted the permission in a statement from its mission to the United Nations, which said it was responding to a written plea to Manouchehr Mottaki, the Iranian foreign minister, from Christine Levinson, the wife of the missing man, Robert Levinson. . . .

Mrs. Levinson said her husband disappeared on March 8 after flying from Dubai to Kish, a resort island off the southern coast of Iran. Kish belongs to Iran, but it is a free-trade zone . . .

Mr. Levinson, 59 and the father of seven children, was an F.B.I. agent for more than 20 years until his retirement in 1998. He has since worked as a private investigator. . . .

According to the family Web site, www.helpboblevinson.com, he went to Kish to investigate cigarette smuggling for a corporate client.

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