Without My Daughter (Part 4 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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[theevilpersian]

What I find absolutely interesting going through the comments is that 90% of the comments are either Black, or White...accusing the other side of lying...even though 99.9% of the people leaving the comments don't even know the real account of all that happened, and speak solely based on either this film, or Betty's movie/book.

Interesting, no?

[scspud]

@theevilpersian not really, you probably don't know the real account of all that happened either.

[theevilpersian]

Did I at any point claim I did in my comment above? Or did I put myself on either side?

[rubyflipper]

Mahtob: Call your poor father!! Whatever his mistakes, he is an old broken-hearted man. Have mercy on him--this is so cruel!!

[kamakasi69]

Even though I hadnt gone through an extreme case like in Mahtobs. My mother never said one bad word about my father to me but that doesn't mean my father didnt make the mistakes he made to make our family fall apart. My mother didnt need to brainwash me for me not to want to talk to my father even through the phone. THere isnt much I want to say to him. Mahtob is smart enough to make her own choices and form her own opinions.

[starrluvamanda]

if he really did do that to his daughter n wife then that is terrible im not gunna defend his actions by any means bc no person should ever do that but if he was really sorry like he looked like in the video then i think his daughter shouldve aleast said goodbye to him when he was dying. like come on he looked miserable n i know that doesnt excuse him of what he did but everybody makes mistakes n maybe he change to be honest i dont think anyone will really no the truth except him Betty and God

[GuatemalanDude999]

I think what this man did was wrong but that should not take away the rights to his daughter. She shouldn't have to live in Iran but she should atleast see her father. She needs to learn compassion and forgiveness. But it could be fear that is keeping her from seeing her father rather than raw anger... in that case she has every right NOT to see her father if she fears she is to be taken to a far land and to never see her home again.

[ladystonefox]

This is silly. The man is silly. I bet Mahtob would have given him a chance if he just would have said "Mahtob, I'm really sorry for everything, what I did was wrong, I want to ask for your forgiveness." But no. He never acknowledges what he did was wrong. He never owned up. He believes he had the right to do this. So sad for him, it's pathetic.

[Anniefulify]

Well there are consequences for everything we do. that was his punishment for being a coward and for hitting his woman! If a man hit me like he did he'd never see me or my daughter. I have no sympathy for him!

[manuel82ification]

Those who cannot forgive and forget with Humility as the Christian faith always quotes, do not deserve forgiveness in return, That girl is going to regret not giving her dad one last chance to speak to her, we must all remember that love is stronger than hate. Yet whatever he did he payed and or will pay in the afterlife if there is an after life we are not here to judge to cast stones at no one we are all the same not below nor above no one we are the same and deserve to give respect to others

[nancychisanga2]

Mahtob you could have forgiven your dad no matter how he did hurt you people.forgiveness matters in all we do in life,especially that revenge is not for us human beings.anyway you can still forgive him,even though is already gone.

[heiopei2009]

this is sad when he cried. =(

i am very sorry for him.

never i could do that to my father. never. at least she could talk to her father, i mean, it is her father. and now he is gone and she can never talk to him anymore.

[JayArgonaut]

@theevilpersian lol you'll have to spell it out to them that the United States ended all diplomatic relations with Iran over 30 years ago. Any communication goes through the Swiss embassy, so imagine the situation. Let alone trying to get a Visa to travel from a country which has been consistently denounced from the Reagan era till now as a rogue state and sponsor of terrorism. As you pointed out, obtaining a visa under those circumstances is difficult. Even government members are denied visa's.

[shasel1104]

Oh please why didn't he just say "Hi Betty" without the introduction this is Dr Mahmoodi.  Laughable

[1likestoplaymusic]

awe. 6:09.....that's so sad. That poor, poor man.