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'You are here for the rest of your life. Do you understand? You are
not leaving Iran. You are here until you die.' Betty Mahmoody and
her husband, Dr Sayyed Bozorg Mahmoody ('Moody'), came to Iran from
the USA to meet Moody's family. With them was their four-year-old
daughter, Mahtob. Appalled by the squalor of their living
conditions, horrified by what she saw of a country where women are
merely chattels and Westerners are despised, Betty soon became
desperate to return to the States. But Moody, and his often vicious
family, had other plans. Mother and daughter became prisoners of an
alien culture, hostages of an increasingly tyrannical and violent
man. Betty began to try to arrange an escape. Evading Moody's
sinister spy network, she secretly met sympathisers opposed to
Khomeini's savage regime. But every scheme that was suggested to
her meant leaving Mahtob behind for ever...
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