Sayed Bozorg "Moody" Mahmoody, PhD (Persian: دكتر سيد بزرگ محمودى c. 1939 - August 23, 2009) was an Iranian anesthesiologist known for taking his American wife Betty and their daughter Mahtob to his native country of Iran and allegedly keeping them hostage there for a period of eighteen months during the mid-1980s.Mahmoody was born to a prominent family in Shustar, Iran and was educated in London and the United States.Mahmoody left Iran at the age of 18 to study English in London. He then moved to the United States, where he became a university math professor and an engineer. He worked for NASA during the 1960s, then went to medical school and became an anaesthesiologist. Wikipedia
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