Secretary of State Clinton renews US call for Iran to release Americans detained, missing
US renews calls on Iran to release Americans
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is pressing Iran to release Americans who are detained or have gone missing there.
Retired FBI agent Robert Levinson has been missing since March 2007. Three hikers — Joshua Fattal, Shane Bauer and Sarah Shourd — were detained by Iranian authorities on July 31. And an Iranian-American scholar, Kian Tajbakhsh, was arrested last month on charges related to provoking unrest.
Clinton’s statement Saturday comes days after a U.S. graduate student held in Iran returned to Los Angeles.