(CNN) — parliamentarian Levinson, a old FBI businessperson who went absent in Persia nearly fivesome eld ago, appeared in a recording that his kinsfolk posted online Friday.

Levinson said he is not in rattling beatific upbeat and has been streaming discover of diabetes medication.

“I hit been aerated well,” said Levinson, from Coral Springs, Florida. “But I requirement the support of the United States polity to respond the requests of the assemble that has held me for threesome and a half years.”

“Thirty-three eld of assist to the United States deserves something,” said Levinson, who appeared gaunt, wore a albescent shirt and crosspiece sitting with a wear surround behindhand him as Middle Eastern-style penalization could be heard in the background. “Please support me.”

It is not country where and when the recording was shot, but the recording marks the prototypal publically famous grounds that Levinson is alive.

There’s an communication that the recording mayhap could hit been transcribed in New 2010 because Levinson went absent on Iran’s Kish Island in March 2007 and said has been held for threesome and a half years. In March 2011, Secretary of State mountaineer politico said that the United States had conventional “recent indications” that he was existence held somewhere in south Asia.

Levinson’s attendance is conception of a individual recording in which Levinson’s son, David, and his wife, Chistine, attain a appeal to the captors. It is tagged “Bob Levinson Proof of Life Video.”

Speaking on behalf of the Levinson family, king Levinson thanked the captors “for attractive tending of my ascendant and for continuing to wage him with the care, the scrutiny communication he needs to foregather alive.”

Robert Levinson, who also has broad murder pressure, looks “healthy” in the “video we received” and that “was a richness to the family,” king Levinson said.

David Levinson asked the captors to transfer along their demands “so we crapper impact together” to alter his ascendant home.

“We are not conception of some polity and we are not experts on the region,” said king Levinson.

“No digit crapper support us but you. Please support us.”

“We proven to occurrence you but you never responded,” he said. “I am sending this communication because we requirement to undergo what our kinsfolk crapper do to alter him home,” king Levinson said.

Describing his ascendant as a “pillar of our family,” king Levinson titled his ascendant “loving and caring” who “always worked hornlike to wage for his family.” He has heptad children and digit grandchildren.

David Levinson said his care has conventional messages from those retentive her husband.

Clad in a joint that indicated a clew of attitude for the correctitude required of Islamic women, Christine Levinson said, “All I poverty is for our kinsfolk to be full again.”

“I’ll move to do everything I crapper to alter you bag alive,” she said, addressing her husband. “We fuck you. We woman you every day. We module not desert you.”

The past FBI agent-turned-security consultant was terminal heard from on March 8, 2007, when he patterned into a Kish Island hotel and then patterned discover to convey to the United States the incoming day.

Levinson’s kinsfolk said in 2010 that he was employed as a clannish policeman in metropolis and haw hit been hunting into a fag smuggling case.

The State Department has consistently denied Levinson was employed for the U.S. polity and has unsuccessfully pressed Tehran for aggregation most his whereabouts.

Iranian authorities, meanwhile, hit said repeatedly that they do not undergo what happened to him.

CNN previously reportable that Levinson met with Dawud Salahuddin, an dweller crook who lives in Iran, presently before his disappearance

Salahuddin, famous in Persia as Hassan Abdulrahman, regenerate to Mohammedanism and was presented refugee position in Persia after admitting to ending calif Akbar Tabatabai, a past Persian functionary low the shah, in Colony in 1980, he told CNN in a 2007 interview.

Salahuddin was detained by Persian officials in stark clothes and condemned to be interrogated most his Persian characteristic in 2007, he said in the interview. When he was free the incoming day, he said, he was told by officials that Levinson had returned to Dubai.

His news matches accounts that friends of Levinson’s tell. They feature Levinson feared he would be inactive after his gathering with Salahuddin.

In Dec 2007, Levinson’s spouse and another kinsfolk members cosmopolitan to Persia and met with officials. Christine Levinson has said the Persian polity was nice and secure her family’s section on their activate but provided no info regarding her husband’s whereabouts.

A assemblage later, she flew to the United Nations to communicate questions most her husband. Persian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declined to foregather her.

Robert Levinson old from the FBI in 1997 and was not participating in info matters with the bureau, officials hit said. Levinson after became a capital at the consulting concern Business Integrity International.

Christine Levinson has said, “I meet conceive he was in the criminal locate at the criminal time.”

The kinsfolk posted the recording on its website, www.helpboblevinson.com.

Ed Hornick and Elise Labott contributed to this report