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In Iran, Search for American Yields Little  

The wife of a former F.B.I. agent who has been missing since March 8 and was last known to have been on a Persian Gulf island that belongs to Iran left the country on Sunday morning after unsuccessfully seeking clues to her husband's whereabouts.

The former agent's wife, Christine Levinson, who traveled to Iran on Tuesday along with her son Daniel and her sister Suzan Halpin, said at a news conference on Saturday that they found no new information about her husband.

"We still don't know where Bob is," she said about her husband, Robert Levinson, 59, who had gone to Kish, a resort island off the southern coast of Iran, to investigate cigarette counterfeiting for a private company.

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