Senate To Urge Iran To Provide Whereabouts Of Missing Floridian

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On the two year anniversary of the disappearance of Floridian Bob Levinson, the U.S. Senate is poised to pass a measure that would put pressure on the Iranian government to provide details about the missing Floridian.

U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, the author of the resolution that is expected to pass this evening, is meeting with Christine Levinson, the wife of the missing man, at 1:30 p.m. today.

The measure calls on the Obama administration to engage officials of the Iranian government to raise the case at every opportunity and for Iran to keep a previous promise to cooperate and provide information on his whereabouts.

"I think Bob is in Iran and I'm hopeful that pressing the government there at every turn will help bring him home to his wife and seven children," said Nelson, a member of the Senate's Intelligence Committee who got involved in the case to intercede for the family with Iranian officials.

Robert Levinson has been missing since March of 2007, when he went on a business trip to the island of Kish off the coast of Iran.

The resolution reads, in part, "that Congress . . . urges the President and the allies of the United States to . . . to raise the case of Robert Levinson at every opportunity, notwithstanding other serious disagreements the United States government has had with the government of Iran."

The resolution is being cosponsored by a number of other lawmakers, including Sens. Mel Martinez, a Republican from Florida, George Voinovich, a Republican from Ohio, and Evan Bayh, a Democrat from Indiana. A similar resolution was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by Rep. Robert Wexler.

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