Mahtob Mahmoody: “ When my father died, I felt relieved.”

Mahtob Mahmoody was born in Texas, the daughter of an American mother and a father of Iranian origin. During a family holiday to Iran in 1984, Mahtob’s outwardly Westernized father reveals himself to be a tyrant: he refuses to return to America and holds his wife Betty and the then four-year-old Mahtob hostage. [caption id="attachment_185701" align="alignnone" width="203"] Mahtob and her father[/caption] Despite their pleas, he swears he will never let his wife and daughter go. It takes two years before

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