Based on what I’ve read of Levinson...I think he just walked into the middle of some Iranian mafia-types....rather than government people.
I suspect it doesn’t help that Levinson is Jewish too.
Maybe... maybe not...
1980 : (MD : AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSLIM CONVERT DAVID BELFIELD a/k/a HASSAN ABDULRAHMAN a/k/a DAWUD SALAHUDDIN ASSASSINATES ALI ACKBAR TABATABAI, ONE OF THE SHAH OF IRAN’S DIPLOMATS ; DAVID BELFIELD WOULD GO ON TO BECOME AN EDITOR FOR IRANIAN PRESS TV AND BE THE LAST PERSON TO SEE FORMER FBI AGENT LEVINSON ON MARCH 8, 2007 BEFORE HE WAS ABDUCTED FROM KISH, AN ISLAND OFF THE COAST OF IRAN)
Levinson was supposedly investigating cigarette smuggling. Cig smuggling was a Hezbollah specialty.
Levinson - who was working for several companies, [maybe a British one?] was abducted 2 weeks before the Iranians -in small boats- pulled a similar stunt to what we just witnessed with our riverine team. Their small craft converged on a British navy boat as if friendly then presented weapons and started giving orders, then later lied about the British vessel being in their waters.
The regime pretty much runs their criminal syndicates.
There were pictures of him, I believe a video too, where he has grey hair and beard. That isn’t going to circulate without the Iranian gov’t knowing what happened & where he is, mafia or not.