Without My Daughter (Part 1 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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[Cher1eNoir]

Those of you who don't believe in Betty then at least read what Mahtob herself has said. She remembers her father beating her mother and has spent most of her life, even as an adult, hiding from him, not wanting contact with him. If he's telling the truth, why don't his daughter want to see him? Is she lying too?

[MultiGMH]

if you live in a islamic country and know their mentality, specially coming from a western mentality country, you DO believe in her version. I also believe that he suffers from beeing far away from his daughter, but after he kept her there without her willing, he was asking for the situation he passt through.

[THEGLASSOFMILK2]

wait don't tell me... this is a movie defending that guy..

[bennyfifty]

Mahmoody went nuts....for whatever reason

[thisisjustme1]

This man is probably going delusional in his old age....Or more plausibly, he has always lived in denial of what he has done...I mean there is one thing that stays true : he has forced her and the daughter to stay in Iran against their will.

[shinyangel100]

i think that both lied in the end

[shinyangel100]

@estupido7490 because of 2 reasons first the FBI and the CIA were chasing him

and second he needed betty Authorization to go to america

[dayspook]

Note the womans response who Betty has written about in the book. "I still can't believe this was Betty written a book like that". She is not denying the events, all she talks about how other women felt upset with Betty writing the book and that it made things "worse". Also note her nervous laughs. Textbook case of deflection the events written about are most likely true.

[jenglen10]

What it boils down to is that this woman was given no choice. She was amazingly brave and she protected her daughter from growing up in terrible conditions. Speaking as a daughter who has not seen her father in years for similar reasons, children remember. If she had wanted to, or had any reason to, give him a chance to be in her life, she would have been able to as an adult. If he was as loving a man as he is attempting to portray himself, he wouldn't have lied and kept her in Iran.

[DontForgetIran2010]

As an Iranian, I am more apt to side with Betty Mahmoody's story, though a lot of the details in the book were biased and not taking into account several issues related to Iran in the mid 1980s.

Anyways, I do believe Dr. Mahmoody did try to at least keep their daughter, Mahtob, there against Betty's will and during the mid 1980s at the time of the Iran-Iraq war, Iran was no place to raise your american born child. She had every right to take him from her.