Without My Daughter (Part 3 of 6)

The the real Mahmoody behind the backwards like and violent Mahmoody character in the 90's movie "Not Without My Daughter". He is still in search of his beloved daughter, Mahtob Mahmoody.

Sayed Mahmoody (70) is a medical doctor who trained in the UK and the USA. He lived and worked in America for more than twenty years where he established a successful practice as an anaesthetist and consultant in Osteopathic Manipulative Therapy (OMT). OMT is a holistic treatment that deals with the patient as a whole being. OMT practitioners use their hands to apply pressure on muscles, nerves and joints – to relieve pain, stiffness and tension in the whole body.

He is an aristocratic Iranian by birth. Sayed’s mother and father died by the time he was eight-years-old, and he was raised by his sister. Although a strict Muslim, he is no way fanatical and believes that Islam is a religion of tolerance, enlightenment and peace.

Sayed returned to Iran with his wife, Betty and daughter, Mahtob with the aim of using his medical knowledge to help treat the victims of the Iran-Iraq war. Days after his green-card expired, Betty left Terhan without warning, taking Mahtob with her on a Swissair Flight to the US. She then divorced Sayed in a US court where he had no voice, so gaining control of all the family’s assets, including substantial properties and savings. The court case and subsequent publication of his wife’s book, Not Without My Daughter, made him persona non grata in the USA.

Sayed has never remarried and continues to work full-time as an OMT practitioner, anaesthetist and university lecturer in Tehran.

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[laurarox4ever]

i think he told Betty it was going to be a two week vacation and imprisoned Betty and Mahtob daughter but i also believe after seeing this that Betty might have exaggerated her living conditions in Iran and the amount of freedom she had but Mahtob did not really love her father after she SAW him beat her mom up, she even talked about it and how in that moment all her love and admiration for her father vanished,

[KinakoIshiyama]

Which brings up what I want to post here:

I'd like to see a documentary or read a book where Mahtob tells her side of the story. Since she most likely wouldn't take sides to either of her parents but just speak of the events she witnessed.

[my1eftf00t]

the chick in the white hijab is lying

[mama3183]

@Swedenleslie So do I hun..

[Jim2011Bo]

It weren't the events in his own country that drove him back. He was being gang stalked in the U.S. Without the internet there was no way that he could have figured out that it was really government organized harassment back then. Look up some videos on gang stalking on YouTube.

[kerryoke68]

@AmericanPrincess25 exactly, a movie exaggerates, that doesn't mean SHE did. The most damning evidence that her life there was bad is, if she had nothing to escape from why did she have to escape? I doubt she would risk life and limb if she was free to come and go just like anyone else. She was barely gone and her husband had contacted the authorities to close airports to her. If she was being watched so closely how did that happen?

[Swedenleslie]

I feel sorrow for this woman

[Moviestar20]

So does anyone know what mahtob said atlast? I feel so sorry for Moody, he died quite young in my opinion

[shasel1104]

@shinaziiiii The last person I wanted to see was my father after the a childhood of physical and emotional abuse so sorry I Understand Mahtaab

[shinaziiiii]

no one can be sure what did happen between them!!!!! but if i was instead of mahtaab, i could give a chance to my father to see me, or i could try to see him, atleast once.

[snowangelnc]

"Americans tend to view things as black and white."

Well, I wouldn't always say that, but in this case, I think holding someone in a war zone against their will does not fall into a gray area, it's wrong. Also, giving them "permission" to go out shopping does not cancel that out. Let's hear a wife in the US talk about how her husband gives her permission to leave the house and see how many people are impressed by his kindness.

[AmericanPrincess25]

Maybe she exaggerated(All movies exaggerate), either way she was held against her will and could not go back to her home. She did not want to be in Iran and her husband took her there. She was not Islamic and did not want to wear a headdress because she wasn't Islamic, so I don't get anyone else's point. She was tricked into staying there and she escaped.