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"This case is obviously a very heart-wrenching humanitarian one," said Wood.
"We continue to call on Iran to provide information about Mr Levinson. It has not been forthcoming, and we're going to continue to press this issue."
Christine Levinson says her husband, who retired from the FBI a decade ago, had traveled to Kish island to investigate cigarette counterfeiting in the region and was last heard of on March 8, 2007.
The mystery of Levinson's disappearance is a further strain in relations between the United States and Iran, which remain tense over Iran's nuclear drive and the fate of US-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi, 32, jailed on espionage charges.
Senior US officials who met with Iranian representatives on the sidelines of a conference on rebuilding Afghanistan on March 31 handed them a letter from Clinton concerning the fate of Levinson and Saberi.
"In the letter, we ask Iran to use all of its facilities to determine the whereabouts, and ensure the quick and safe return of Robert Levinson" and release Roxana Saberi, while giving her and US-based academic Esha Momeni permission to travel, Clinton said at the time.
Saberi, 32, was sentenced to eight years in jail after being convicted of spying for Washington. She has been on hunger strike since April 21 in protest at the sentence and was briefly hospitalized on Friday, according to her family.
Saberi's fate remains an issue "of great concern" to Washington, Wood said Tuesday.
"We're worried about her health," he said.
Washington and Tehran broke off diplomatic ties in the aftermath of the 1979 Islamic revolution.
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"We continue to call on Iran to provide information about Mr Levinson. It has not been forthcoming, and we're going to continue to press this issue."
Christine Levinson says her husband, who retired from the FBI a decade ago, had traveled to Kish island to investigate cigarette counterfeiting in the region and was last heard of on March 8, 2007.
The mystery of Levinson's disappearance is a further strain in relations between the United States and Iran, which remain tense over Iran's nuclear drive and the fate of US-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi, 32, jailed on espionage charges.
Senior US officials who met with Iranian representatives on the sidelines of a conference on rebuilding Afghanistan on March 31 handed them a letter from Clinton concerning the fate of Levinson and Saberi.
"In the letter, we ask Iran to use all of its facilities to determine the whereabouts, and ensure the quick and safe return of Robert Levinson" and release Roxana Saberi, while giving her and US-based academic Esha Momeni permission to travel, Clinton said at the time.
Saberi, 32, was sentenced to eight years in jail after being convicted of spying for Washington. She has been on hunger strike since April 21 in protest at the sentence and was briefly hospitalized on Friday, according to her family.
Saberi's fate remains an issue "of great concern" to Washington, Wood said Tuesday.
"We're worried about her health," he said.
Washington and Tehran broke off diplomatic ties in the aftermath of the 1979 Islamic revolution.
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