When a 5 year old is clenched from her mother. A surreal imagination flashes through our minds of either domestic abuse or traumatic pain. Well, there are strict laws that protect women and children from ever witnessing that. But, what happens behind closed doors remains closed.
This is the true story of Betty Mahmoody. The woman who fought to keep her child and win freedom for both of them.
There is freedom of expression and freedom of speech in almost entire global hemisphere leaving a few authoritative regimes. But, there is a catch. Reasonable restrictions are imposed by the governments. Freedom of expression is not an absolute right. This provides a legal route for the government to decide what’s acceptable according to them or not.
The Era of the 1980s, didn’t have the technology that we now possess. Deciphering propaganda from the real truth was merely impossible. People believe in what they want to believe though even now they do so. But, there is plethora of diverse views available to challenge now.
The Iranian revolution of 1979 over-through the Shah rule from the land. The rule of monarchy ended when Ayatollah Khomeni, replaced the imperial state of Iran by the present-day Islamic republic of Iran. The dream of “Happiness is Coming” was propagated by the Iranian revolution.
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The Iranian diaspora around the world and the US, turned onto the radio everyday to listen. The mass medium always helped the message to reach far and wide. Indeed, the message propagated through the minds of countless Iranian people living in the US.
An anesthesiologist with a high paying job of $150k per annum, decided to leave America and go back to his home town. He took a prized possession along with him, his American wife and his 5-year old daughter.
Cultural differences exist in our society. There isn’t any culture that is superior or inferior. It’s the choice of the person, to believe and belong to the culture they want to. Moody (anesthesiologist) didn’t give that choice to his wife.
She wasn’t allowed to leave Iran. Moody had tricked Betty (Moody wife). In a male dominated society, Betty learnt how to behave, when to keep her mouth shut else get thrashed into submission. Finally, she learnt to believe in the goodness and the intent of the men around her.
While escaping from the mountainous range between Iran and Turkey. She tenaciously held onto a kurd man and relied on him to take her across the border safely.
